[Info-vax] I64 RAID controller P4xx family - init drives on one controller, use on a different family model

[Eberhard Heuser]

And the same ist true for the scsi version of the Smart Array controllers SA5300 / SA6400.
Eberhard

Am 7. Juli 2020 19:22:27 MESZ schrieb Rod Regier via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com>:
>It's worthy to note that the RX2660 QuickSpec describes the LSISAS1068
>on-board SCSI controller as "Core 8 port Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
>host bus adapter" while it describes the P400 option as "8 port Smart
>Array P400 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controller,".
>
>This strongly suggests that the LSISAS1068 controller is not considered
>part of the HP/HPE Smart Array controller family.
>
>I initialized a hardware RAID mirror set on an RX2660 LSISAS1068
>controller running the final release firmware, loaded data, setup boot
>pointer and successfully booted OpenVMS from it.
>I then performed a conrolled shutdown/power down, moved the RAID mirror
>set member drives to a P400 controller on the same RX2660, powered up
>and booted OpenVMS from the same removable media I used for the earlier
>test sequence.
>
>I used MSA$UTIL to interrogate the UNITS and DISKS visible to the P400
>controller.
>
>The P400 controller could see the individual drives, but could not
>detect the RAID controller units created earlier.
>
>I'm declaring this as a format migration failure between the LSISAS1068
>and the P400.
>
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>
>I have done similar format interchange tests between P400 and P410
>controllers (both directions) successfully.
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