[Info-vax] SmartArray 5300a again

[Wilm Boerhout]

Bart.Zorn at gmail.com vaguely mentioned on 20-1-2009 11:30:
> 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

Does "Smart" in SmartArray mean that you can direct it to present two 
1TB volumes to the VMS host, and then join these as a VMS volume set?

/Wilm