[Info-vax] SmartArray 5300a again

[Bart.Zorn at gmail.com]

On Jan 20, 10:55 am, gartm... at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph
Gartmann) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> now that I have my additional disks connected to the array via a 5300A
> Smartarray (I had to reboot), the next question puzzles me:
> Under MSA$UTIL I see:
>     Logical Volume Capacity : 1955.76 [2099.98] GB
> A SHOW DEVICE under VMS 7.3-2 shows
>     Total blocks          2147475456    Sectors per track   255
> which is only half of the above. Any explanantion?
>
> By the way - where do I find firmware for this controller? HP's page directs me
> to firmware for the DS25 :-(
>
> Regards,
>    Christoph Gartmann
>
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Maybe because OpenVMS supports only volumes up to 1 TB?

Bart Zorn