In article <cu51f5$con$1@eol.dd.chalmers.se>,
Fredrik Lundholm <dol@ce.chalmers.se> wrote:
>In article <cu4di3$78q$1@fuego.d-and-d.com>,
>DoN. Nichols <dnichols@d-and-d.com> wrote:
>>I've recently acquired a Sun A1000 raid box (with no drives).
>
>> *But* -- when trying to log into the box to examine/tune its
>>configuration, I was confronted with a request for a password. (At this
>>time I captured the screen output, including the device serial number.
>
>The A1000 should be configured in-band via the raid manager software suite,
>and not via the serial port.

So why do they have the serial port in the first place? And the
10BaseT as well (or is it 100BaseT)? The ethernet port seems to not be
active at present, but the serial port certainly is. One may presume
that something useful could be done through those.

>> To this end, I pulled the "Snap-Hat" battery/crystal assembly
>>from the chip which appears to be clock and NV-RAM (similar to the
>>monolithic one in the usual Sun machines).
>>
>> Well ... I may have *changed* the password, but I did not
>>*clear* it.
>
>Install raid manager 6.22.1 and try to access it.
>You probably just made a fancy boat anchor out of your unit.

Is that software somewhere in the CD-ROMs of Solaris-9? Or is it
an extra cost package? If the latter, I'm reluctant to invest until I
*know* that the rest will work -- unless it is really inexpensive.

O.K. There is one of the previous version (6.22) on eBay. And
it (so far) looks cheap enough to experiment with.

So far, no luck in finding it in the CD-ROM set of supplemental
software.

And if all else fails, the unit can at least be turned into a
simple D1000 with a board swap -- so it should be possible to utilize it
still, just with software RAID instead of hardware.

Thanks much,
DoN.
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