The "4 slot" designation on the RX assumes 4 half-length cards, or 2
full-length cards. The FW-SCSI card is a full-length card. If he
already has a 100Base-T card in, then he only has one full-height slot
left, and he has one half-length slot left.

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:04:57 -0500, Gribbin, Francis J.
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Looks like the 918RX has 4 slots.
> Other than the NIC & FW SCSI, do you have something in the other two ?
>
> Frank Gribbin
> Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP
>
>
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> Subject: [HP3000-L] NIKE Mod 20 Woes...
>
> I'm currently running a 918RX, 512Mb Memory.  We recently went from (3) 9G
> external drives (LDEV one running at 4 G of course) to a Nike Array.
>
> Unfortunately, due to a 100mb NIC card taking up one half of a slot, we
> couldn't't run a second FW SCSI card so we're running 8 LDEVS on the single
> FW SCSI card, and the performance has taken a hit.
>
> It's my understanding that the limit on a FW SCSI card is 4 drives, so I
> guess I could reconfigure the Nike for 4 LDEVS, converting the rest to 'hot
> spares.'  For a temporary fix.
>
> Looks like we need a larger server.  Any recommendations?
>
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