thenetwraith
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After so many years in this industry, I hate being a newbie at anything, but, I picked up a FC5600 as a storage shelf. Not realizing that it was a whole sight more than just a shelf. What I needed was a dumb shelf w/73G drives that I could simply attach to my Emulex LP8000/Linux and go.. No such luck... It turns out to have a pair of RAID DPE boards, with no docs or suppport software. The drives themselves are formatted with 520 byte sectors, so, they are not not much use in a straight loop.. So... who out there has documentation and enough software to get me set up???
Some info on the unit. It is a Data General branded Clariion and was pretty roughly handled. The lock handles on the LCC cards are broken off and one of the cards is un-removeable. The front fan tray was mashed so that the power connectors won't make contact without putting something through the grate and forcing the connector to seat. There were no cables or terminators or anything else... Just the unit, loaded with drives. Both DPE's come up with a 0x0_7F code and hang..
Essentially, I bought the thing for the drives, and got a good price, but, if I can't use it as an array, it's pretty useless and I should go get my cash back and look for another. Can anyone get me started or should I just go back to the well ???
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thenetwraith (There is a picture here, but, you just can't see it!)
After so many years in this industry, I hate being a newbie at anything, but, I picked up a FC5600 as a storage shelf. Not realizing that it was a whole sight more than just a shelf. What I needed was a dumb shelf w/73G drives that I could simply attach to my Emulex LP8000/Linux and go.. No such luck... It turns out to have a pair of RAID DPE boards, with no docs or suppport software. The drives themselves are formatted with 520 byte sectors, so, they are not not much use in a straight loop.. So... who out there has documentation and enough software to get me set up???
Some info on the unit. It is a Data General branded Clariion and was pretty roughly handled. The lock handles on the LCC cards are broken off and one of the cards is un-removeable. The front fan tray was mashed so that the power connectors won't make contact without putting something through the grate and forcing the connector to seat. There were no cables or terminators or anything else... Just the unit, loaded with drives. Both DPE's come up with a 0x0_7F code and hang..
Essentially, I bought the thing for the drives, and got a good price, but, if I can't use it as an array, it's pretty useless and I should go get my cash back and look for another. Can anyone get me started or should I just go back to the well ???
Reply-to: netwraith@pcrd.net
thenetwraith (There is a picture here, but, you just can't see it!)