[Info-vax] SmartArray 5300a again

[David Turner, islandco.com]

FYI The firmware for the Smartarray is on most of the current Alpha Firmware 
update CDs
7.3 iso includes it - I believe it is v 3.56 for the Smartarray 5300a 
(3X-KZPDC-xx)  and 2.88 for the 6402/4 (3XKZPEC-XX)

David

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"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote in message 
news:rf6dnbhZ4e8za-jUnZ2dnUVZ_szinZ2d at giganews.com...
> 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
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>>  Max-Planck-Institut fuer      Phone   : +49-761-5108-464   Fax: -80464
>>>>  Immunbiologie
>>>>  Postfach 1169                 Internet: gartmann at immunbio dot mpg dot 
>>>> de
>>>>  D-79011  Freiburg, Germany
>>>>                http://www.immunbio.mpg.de/home/menue.html
>>>
>>> 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?
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