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  • OEM SAS Disks?

    From home" @21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 2 15:44:11 2020
    What do I need to get OEM (i.e. not IBM labeled) SAS disks to work,
    say under AIX 7.1?
    They can be configured (as "other SAS disk"),
    but not formatted (under hardware diagnostics)
    and can't be added to volume groups.
    Which leaves them as a somewhat expensive paperweight.

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  • From Marc J.@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 21 19:12:12 2020
    Le 02/06/2020 à 15:44, Michael Kraemer @ home a écrit :
    What do I need to get OEM (i.e. not IBM labeled) SAS disks to work,
    say under AIX 7.1?
    They can be configured (as "other SAS disk"),
    but not formatted (under hardware diagnostics)
    and can't be added to volume groups.
    Which leaves them as a somewhat expensive paperweight.

    Hello,

    I installed AIX 6.1 with success on a Seagate Cheetah 15K 146GB ST3146855S

    Marc

    --
    The 68K Documentation http://marc.retronik.fr/motorola/68K

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  • From home" @21:1/5 to Marc J. on Mon Jun 22 13:24:58 2020
    Marc J. wrote:
    Le 02/06/2020 à 15:44, Michael Kraemer @ home a écrit :

    What do I need to get OEM (i.e. not IBM labeled) SAS disks to work,
    say under AIX 7.1?
    They can be configured (as "other SAS disk"),
    but not formatted (under hardware diagnostics)
    and can't be added to volume groups.
    Which leaves them as a somewhat expensive paperweight.


    Hello,

    I installed AIX 6.1 with success on a Seagate Cheetah 15K 146GB ST3146855S

    Marc


    OK, I notice that for some disks this works.
    However, I'd feel better if I could run a
    /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/uformat
    against the selected disk.
    This is being refused:
    "A number of attributes are found to be missing from the Data Base"
    although the disk is configured.
    Would it need some kind of microcode download?

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