[Info-vax] 900GB 10K SAS drives

[Kerry Main]

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> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] 900GB 10K SAS drives
> 
> 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
> _______________________________________________

What kind of SAS controller do you have?

Is it a RAID controller? If yes, there may be some additional steps 
Required to setup drives as JBOD. 

As an example:
$ mcr sas$util
SAS> show controller
SAS> help (for other commands)

As a fyi, on my local rx2600, I have 2 x 2TB western digital drives with 
HW mirroring (effective space = 2TB to OpenVMS) using an LSISAS1068
controller.

Only minor issue with the 2TB drive is that due to its size, OpenVMS (both 
HP 8.4 and VSI 8.4-1H1) cannot properly show the number of blocks.
A $ show dev d shows this drive blocks as ******.

Total blocks = 3,905,980,417

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com