[Info-vax] Problems configuring SA-controller

[Joukj]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-03-15 14:21:49 +0000, Joukj said:
> 
>> Joukj wrote:
>>
>> When rebooting I noticed the message:
>>
>> HP Smart Array 6400-128 Controller       (version 2.84)  0 Logical Drives
>> 1785-Drive Array Not Configured
>>       Configuration information indicates drives were configured on a 
>> controller
>>       with a newer firmware version.  To avoid data loss, reattach 
>> drives to
>>       original controller or upgrade controller firmware using Options 
>> ROMPaq.
>>
>> which is strange since as far as I now version 2.84 is the last 
>> formware for this device.
>>
>> Pressing F8 did not get me into the controller, so I tried MSA$UTIL 
>> again. But now I tried to use an unit-number (in my case 7) which I 
>> never used on this device and that worked.
>>
>> Can someone explain what might be going on here?
> 
> Hard disk drive RAID sets connected to RAID controllers in the Smart 
> Array family can be transported in their entirety across different Smart 
> Array controllers.
> 
> Which is one of the better and lesser-known features of this series of 
> RAID controllers, though then-HP did advertise the feature.
> 
> HP offered a plethora of Windows controller variants and firmware 
> revisions, and far fewer OpenVMS variants and revisions.
> 
> As for this case, who knows the history of how these disks got here? Or 
> the RAID controllers and firmware revisions that were used?
> 
> If you don't care what's presently on the hard disk storage, erase and 
> reset it all.

Thanks that explains the problem

> 
> And one mistake I've made with the F-keys at console startup, those are 
> the PC F-keys and not the OpenVMS F-keys. There's a list of LK keyboard 
> control chords around for some of these option ROM / console firmware / 
> console keyboard differences, but I don't recall whether that was 
> possible with the Smart Array series as I usually scrounge and swap in a 
> PC keyboard for the duration of the reconfiguration as I've had trouble 
> with the LK control chords support.

Yes, I did a telnet session with a LK-keyboard. If the above had failed
The plan was to go to the datacenter and plugin a PC-keyboard directly 
to the machine.