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How to use ordinary disks on Clariion..
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I would like to use ordinary Seagate (purchased on the market) 80 pin SCA disk on Clariion.So I have formatted 18 GB disk on Seagate's Seatool as 520 byte per sector than inserted to Clariion but system immediately showed OFF on Clariion Presantation utility.. Is there anybody have an idea? thanks digitaldad.. |
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How to use ordinary disks on Clariion..
digitaldad wrote:
hi.. I would like to use ordinary Seagate (purchased on the market) 80 pin SCA disk on Clariion.So I have formatted 18 GB disk on Seagate's Seatool as 520 byte per sector than inserted to Clariion but system immediately showed OFF on Clariion Presantation utility.. Is there anybody have an idea? EMC has certainly not hesitated to use special firmware on Seagate drives in the past when it wanted to, so the lack of it may be the problem. - bill |
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Bill Todd wrote:
EMC has certainly not hesitated to use special firmware on Seagate drives in the past when it wanted to, so the lack of it may be the problem. Is there any way to download emc firmware from emc drives and then burn it onto custom drives :-? Kiran Ghag |
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On 31 May 2006 22:17:00 -0700, "Globe Treader"
wrote: Bill Todd wrote: EMC has certainly not hesitated to use special firmware on Seagate drives in the past when it wanted to, so the lack of it may be the problem. Is there any way to download emc firmware from emc drives and then burn it onto custom drives :-? Kiran Ghag No, it doesn't work that way. You also just cant download the latest EMC firmware and flash it on a standard seagate disk and expect the vendor/product IDs to change. (Well, you will likely be able to flash the firmware, but the vendor/product IDs, or drive serial number, or many different things could change on you, which may render disk useless unless you had the magic firmware build to reset everything. You need a special firmware build to do this, and the people that have it aren't going to release it to anybody or post it on some web site as they will not only lose their jobs over this, but would suject themselves to lawsuits and potential criminal charges for theft of intellectual property. |
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How to use ordinary disks on Clariion..
EMC Drives are tested and approved by EMC at EMC in Southboro. Yes, they do
play with the firmware. No way to add third-party drives to ANY EMC array that I have ever heard of . Regards, Rick "digitaldad" wrote in message oups.com... hi.. I would like to use ordinary Seagate (purchased on the market) 80 pin SCA disk on Clariion.So I have formatted 18 GB disk on Seagate's Seatool as 520 byte per sector than inserted to Clariion but system immediately showed OFF on Clariion Presantation utility.. Is there anybody have an idea? thanks digitaldad.. |
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How to use ordinary disks on Clariion..
You can also use fujustu dirves but that too have EMC Firmware in it
Hemanand Rick wrote: EMC Drives are tested and approved by EMC at EMC in Southboro. Yes, they do play with the firmware. No way to add third-party drives to ANY EMC array that I have ever heard of . Regards, Rick "digitaldad" wrote in message oups.com... hi.. I would like to use ordinary Seagate (purchased on the market) 80 pin SCA disk on Clariion.So I have formatted 18 GB disk on Seagate's Seatool as 520 byte per sector than inserted to Clariion but system immediately showed OFF on Clariion Presantation utility.. Is there anybody have an idea? thanks digitaldad.. |
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How to use ordinary disks on Clariion..
digitaldad wrote: hi.. I would like to use ordinary Seagate (purchased on the market) 80 pin SCA disk on Clariion.So I have formatted 18 GB disk on Seagate's Seatool as 520 byte per sector than inserted to Clariion but system immediately showed OFF on Clariion Presantation utility.. Is there anybody have an idea? thanks digitaldad.. This does not sounds right. SCA is a SCSI interface and Clariion is using a FC.......slight difference:-) including number of pins....... Additionally Clariion disks have different F/W.... not to mension that disks from older systems such FC4500 /FC4700 are using two voltages ( +5V and +12V) while the newer systems use only +12 V Anyway - it does not sounds as a good idea - you might void your support contracts even if you will be able to use different disks. |
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How to use ordinary disks on Clariion..
CLARiiON disks are formatted with 520bytes per sector, normal disks are
512 bytes per sector. The additional 8 bytes are for CLARiiON internal metadata use. TUSiek wrote: digitaldad wrote: hi.. I would like to use ordinary Seagate (purchased on the market) 80 pin SCA disk on Clariion.So I have formatted 18 GB disk on Seagate's Seatool as 520 byte per sector than inserted to Clariion but system immediately showed OFF on Clariion Presantation utility.. Is there anybody have an idea? thanks digitaldad.. This does not sounds right. SCA is a SCSI interface and Clariion is using a FC.......slight difference:-) including number of pins....... Additionally Clariion disks have different F/W.... not to mension that disks from older systems such FC4500 /FC4700 are using two voltages ( +5V and +12V) while the newer systems use only +12 V Anyway - it does not sounds as a good idea - you might void your support contracts even if you will be able to use different disks. |
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