I would like to thank everyone for their timely answers to my
question. Thanks to:
Arvinder Paul <arvinder@ibd.investors.com>
Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org>
rudy yu <ryu@legato.com>
Martin Oksnevad <martin@stavanger.geoquest.slb.com>
"Karl E. Vogel" <vogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.mil>
It sounds like it would not be worth it to try generic sca 9 gig
drives in our ssa 100. Issues brougth up include:
1) Not sufficient cooling ( the 9 gig drives are 7200 rpm)
2) Not sufficient power supply (see #1)
3) Firmware in the drives may not be compatible with ssa 100.
(It seems that the 1 gig drives we have in there now have
some special firmware in order to work in the ssa 100).
We have had no trouble with any of the drives so far (about 2
years, ... knock on wood) and they are covered under a service
contract so if they do fail it won't be our problem (at least
not our problem to fix it).
I think we'll leave it alone for now.
Thanks again!!
Scott
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On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Scott F. Woods wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We have a SPARCstorage Array Model 100 which is about two years
> old. It came configured with 18 1gig drives which are evenly
> divided among three trays. Recently we just bought a single
> 9 gig Western Digital drive which to my suprise is the same
> size as the 1 gig drives in the storage array!! Now my question
> is, can we use these 9 gig drives in the storage array? My idea
> is to clear out one of the trays which is now holding 6 1 gig
> drives (RAID 5 ~ 4.5 gig) and add 6 9 gig drives to the same
> tray. The Western Digital drive we just got isn't an sca drive,
> but they do make sca drives and I'm assumming that they're the
> same size as the drive we got (68 pin). Is there a limit to
> the size of the drive that can go in this storage array?
> We use the Veritas software if that matters.
>
> Thanks for your help!!
>
> Scott
>
>
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> | CAD Engineer email: sfw@adc.idt.com |
> | Integrated Device Technology, Inc. |
> | 11555 Medlock Bridge Rd. Suite #170 |
> | Duluth, GA 30097 |
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