[rescue] storage array won't power on

[hike]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Steve Sandau <ssandau at gwi.net> wrote:

> Mark Benson wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Steve Sandau <ssandau at gwi.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Any ideas?
>>>
>>
>> The SSA 114 is quite old. It's not by any chance marked as
>> 'Differential' or 'HVD' is it? How about the drives you took out? I
>> know mixing HVD (which was originally I believe just referred to as
>> Differetial SCSI) and LVD can result in at best nothing working and at
>> worst blue smoke and bad smells.
>>
>> Just a 'off the top of my head' thought...
>>
>>
> Thanks for the thoughts. I have tried powering this on with the same drives
> that were in it last I used it. I believe they are all SE or LVD. I can't
> find any mention of HVD on the box, and I rechecked the drives.
>
> And yes, it is indeed old, but it provides me multi-host shared
> fiber-attached storage perfect for Sun cluster. Add to that the fact that it
> was free, and you see my attachment to it. ;-)
>
> I found some more SSA docs, and the non-working LED on the PS is supposed
> to light up to show that there is DC output. It does not light up, only the
> LED that indicates AC input lights. So, I suspect that it is the PS.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steve
>
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the ssa information is in the systems handbook.  there is not much
information.

but, IIRC, the power supplies in some the ssa restricted the array to 4.2GB
hard drives only.
a power supply upgrade is needed to use the 9.1GB hard drives.
the ssa will not start if the "larger" power supplies are not present.

at that time, IIRC, only SE and HVD drives were used.
the ssas used the SE hard drives.