[SunRescue] disks for 100 series SSA

[PNuttonPaul.Nutton at awe.co.uk]

Hi all,

I have now fitted 5 SUN9.0G drives into a Sparc Storage Array (SSA) 100
series, replacing a stripe of the existing 1Gb drives. I have built a file
system on them and have been using them in testing for 2 weeks and in a
production environment for a further week. So far no problems!

The disks are a mix of:

		Fujitsu	MAB3091SC
		IBM		DNES-309170
		Seagate	ST39173WC

They are 1 inch high and also fit E450 and RSM2000 drive bays.

The Seagate disks gave me real problems, as they came in 3 different
flavours and sizes, all with the same part number. Size varied from 8.00Gb
to 8.43Gb, a real pain when trying to build a raid array. Eventually my
supplier replaced them all with ones that included the phrase SUN9.0G on the
packing. There really should be a way of low level formatting the drives to
fix this.

I hope this information helps some other packrat out there. There is life in
your SSA yet!
-- 
Paul Nutton, SysAdmin, AWE plc, UK.
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