[rescue] storage array won't power on

[paul nutton]

> 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

I'm afraid it is likely that the psu is toast. I did the same thing to
an SSA a few years ago, gradually replacing 2G with 4G and 9G until pop!

A replacement psu fixed it, so I don't know which bit blew, or how to
fix it. They've all gone now, I'm afraid.
--
Paul Nutton

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