[rescue] Drives for old Clariion array?

[Kevin Loch]

David Passmore wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:41:42PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > can someone give me specs on what larger (than 500meg) drives I can
> > drop into one of the 2000-series DG/EMC Clariion arrays?
> 
> I've been doing a LOT of research on these. I own two now (an SGI-badged
> Challenge RAID, and a real 2800). My objective has been to find the latest
> LIC/FLARE code for both the Phoenix (PowerPC) and Sauna (AMD) service
> processors and find spare SPs.
> 
> The Challenge RAID sucks because I can't replace disks in it; it requires
> drives with SGI firmware. I /have/ the drive firmware, but it only applies
> to IBM DHCS 4GB and 9GB drives, and I don't know if you can apply it to new
> drives, or only to drives with downrev SGI firmware, since I don't have any
> new drives. It has Phoenix SPs, one of which is bad.
> 

Does an Indy require SGI firmware drives too?  I remember having some
difficulty using non-sgi drives on it.  I figured I just needed to 
put a valid label on it.  If it needs specific firmware then it just
won't work :(

KL