[Info-vax] SmartArray 5300a again

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Wilm Boerhout wrote:
> 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?
> 

Creating such a volume set is "smart"???????????

Yes it does give you a 2 TB "disk".  It also gives you a 2 TB headache 
if either drive fails!   What do you use for disk backups?  How many 
days or weeks does a restore take?