[Info-vax] 900GB 10K SAS drives

[mjjerabek]

On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 11:46:49 PM UTC-8, Hans Vlems wrote:
> What exactly did you do (typ in) and what is the hardware configuration?
> Hans

rx2800, disk controller set to HBA mode. DKA100 a standard OpenVMS 8.4 system disk. DKA800 and DKA700 are QTY 2 900GB 10K SAS disc drives.

All drives are fully inserted and locked into place. I boot the system from DKA100 and try to 1st INIT DKA800 ($ init DKA800: JUNK8). I receive a media offline error message.

The 2 drives are fresh out of their static free envelopes.

OpenVMS disk is patched up to OpenVMS 8.4 with PCSI V400/UPDATE V1000.

I repeated the same test using a similarly configured rx2660 with the same negative results.

Up until this point, the largest disc I have had is a 146GB drive. Before I go for my 3yr warranty on the 900GB 10K SAS disc drives, I thought I'd ask whether I may need a new firmware for the rx2660/rx2800 computers or SAS disk controller. Also, since I do not have access to a software service contract at this time, do I have the OpenVMS system patched up to the correct set/level of patches?

Mjj