Life of a Sysadmin

The occassional trials and tribulations of a jack of all tr ades sysadmin in a startup in Silicon Valley

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July 2006

Last week, I ordered a server to run a tape jukebox and perform backups for all our servers. To save a little money, it was ordered without drives, as we have a small pile of 250 gb drives sitting around after having upgraded a decent sized sata array.

The server (in one of these chassis) showed up, I set it in a rack, and went to install a pair of hard drives. For some reason the drives weren't being recognized. Upon further investigation, it seems the layout of the bays up-front do not match the locations of the sata connectors on the back of the back plane.

Life of a Sysadmin

July 2006

A SATA Back Plane, or A small annoyance