[rescue] FC-AL drives on sale at geeks.com

[David Muran-de Assereto]

On Dec 23, 2007, at 14:15 , Dr Robert Pasken wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, David Muran-de Assereto wrote:
>
>> On Dec 23, 2007, at 11:56 , Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>
>>>> From: David Muran-de Assereto <dmuran at tuad.org>
>>>> Date: 2007/12/23 Sun AM 12:14:13 CST
>>>> To: Rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>>>> Subject: [rescue] FC-AL drives on sale at geeks.com
>>>
>>>> Just a heads up, no association with seller except past  
>>>> satisfaction.
>>>>
>>>> geeks.com is selling 36.4GB 15K FCALs for $4.99 each.
>>>
>>> I've got some Dell PowerVault 650F (some sort of bastard child of
>>> Dell/Calriion, IIRC) that are stuffed with 10 9 Gig FC-AL drives,
>>> I'm tempted
>>> to upgrade them, but 10x 36.4 Gig = about a $60 320 SATA drive[0]...
>>
>> I agree in general, but that SATA drive doesn't work so well in my
>> Blade 1000.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> David Muran-de Assereto
>> dmuran at tuad.org
>>
>> Sapere Aude!
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>
> I picked up a 300gb st3300007fcv drive from a reseller for my Blade  
> 1000.
> THe ebay add said new in the box. Indeed it was new in the box, but  
> it was
> for a EMC array. When placed in the Blade 1000 FCAL slot, the drive  
> spins
> up, but hangs the loop. Any ideas?

Not me. All the FC-AL drives I've messed with in the Blade Just Work.  
Never tried anything that large, though.
If it came up but didn't show in the OS, etc, I might think it was one  
of those weird block size issues, but hanging the loop doesn't fit  
that bill.


David Muran-de Assereto
dmuran at tuad.org

Sapere Aude!