CLARiiON 7300e.7

[Phlavio]

Dear Sirs,

I'm desperated. I'm an Italian obsolete computer systems
collector and I rescued from destruction an old CLARiiON
7300e.7 storage subsystem (PROM v7.99 - microcode
v8.02 - AMD-based SPs); after cleaning and reassembling
it, everything seems to work well, but the inner GRIDMGR
(queried via DASSMGR.EXE) only allows the creation of
9337-emulation arrays (I think it was connected to an IBM
AS/400 system when in use). Once connected in a
single-server/dual-HVD-controller configuration (I use a
couple of Adaptec AHA-2944UW controllers onto an IBM
PC Server 330 server) the created LUNs are correctly
detected, but both WinNT and Adaptec SCSI managers tell
me that the connected units are 520 bytes/block formatted
and so they can't create any partition onto them.

How can I tell the SPs that I need common 512 byte/block
RAID units instead of the 9337-like they create?

Please help me - it would be a pity having such I monster
and leaving it alone and unused...

Many thanks in anticipation,

Phlavio

 

[maultier]

Clariion systems need the 520 sector disks for cache and vault information. Clariion SP's have a 'type' setting. Yours must be set to ibm. NT type = 8 . Type is changed via the 'change sp parameters' menu. Changes of that sort require a power cycle to become effective.

 

[Phlavio]

Hi Maultier,

thanks for your reply. I just tried to apply your suggestion, but my GRIDMGR hasn't such a setting: under 'change sp parameters' it has only four items (error logging, error reporting, console settings and PROM update). Maybe my firmware is too old to support this? I tried looking around on the internet for the related .BIN file, but I found nothing except the manuals I already got...

Phlavio

 

[maultier]

If you have an Instant Messenger Client (aol yahoo icq) I may be able to help you.

 

[Phlavio]

Hi Maultier,

arghhh I haven't... Can we do via e-mail? Mine is phlavio (at) libero (dot) it.

Thanks,

Phlavio