I have 2 EMC FC4700's and acquired some Dell Power Vault 630F DAE's and DPE's and several 73g drives.
I tried to expand my FC4700 by adding a Dell DAE and the drives came up as unsupported.
I then tried to put some EMC drives into the Dell DAE, but they would not physically slide into the disk tray.
I found a metal tab was blocking the drive from being installed. The Dell drives have a notch cut into the carrier that the EMC drives don't have.
I then cut a notch into an EMC drive and slid it in and was able to see it fine from my management station.
The drives are of the same type Cheetah 73g but they have different firmware EMC=4a20 Dell=DE18.
So is the Dell hardware incompatible at both the hardware (can't physically insert drive) and software (drive label has different format) levels?
I tried to expand my FC4700 by adding a Dell DAE and the drives came up as unsupported.
I then tried to put some EMC drives into the Dell DAE, but they would not physically slide into the disk tray.
I found a metal tab was blocking the drive from being installed. The Dell drives have a notch cut into the carrier that the EMC drives don't have.
I then cut a notch into an EMC drive and slid it in and was able to see it fine from my management station.
The drives are of the same type Cheetah 73g but they have different firmware EMC=4a20 Dell=DE18.
So is the Dell hardware incompatible at both the hardware (can't physically insert drive) and software (drive label has different format) levels?