I've recently come into possession of some Fibre Channel 40 pin drives
(ST3146807FC). These are FC-AL, unfortunately I misinterpreted the
specs on a controller I was looking at before I snagged the drives.

Any suggestions as to what sort of host controllers I might look at
and/or suggestions for shelves/enclosures/adapters?

I've got 8 drives, ideally I'd run 4 per server across two servers,
although if the cost difference is substantial I could put them on a
single box.

DevilsPGD <(E-Mail Removed)> kenjka:
> Any suggestions as to what sort of host controllers I might look at
> and/or suggestions for shelves/enclosures/adapters?

Look for QLogic and Emulex FC RAID controllers... Maybe there is
something...

Also, watch out for the drive low-level formatting... If they're formatted
as 520 bytes per sector, than those are EMC CLARiiON drives and you'll have
to reformat them via some utility like SCSITool...

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On Wed, 27 May 2009 06:16:05 +0000 (UTC),
(E-Mail Removed)lid wrote:

>DevilsPGD <(E-Mail Removed)> kenjka:
>> Any suggestions as to what sort of host controllers I might look at
>> and/or suggestions for shelves/enclosures/adapters?
>
>Look for QLogic and Emulex FC RAID controllers... Maybe there is
>something...
>
>Also, watch out for the drive low-level formatting... If they're formatted
>as 520 bytes per sector, than those are EMC CLARiiON drives and you'll have
>to reformat them via some utility like SCSITool...

I wouldn't be surprised if they are EMC Clariion drives since the
likely source of the drives was known for using EMC equipment in the
past for years. That old equipment is being decomissioned now.

Hi!

shawn wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2009 06:16:05 +0000 (UTC),
> (E-Mail Removed)lid wrote:
>
>> DevilsPGD <(E-Mail Removed)> kenjka:
>>> Any suggestions as to what sort of host controllers I might look at
>>> and/or suggestions for shelves/enclosures/adapters?
>> Look for QLogic and Emulex FC RAID controllers... Maybe there is
>> something...
>>
>> Also, watch out for the drive low-level formatting... If they're formatted
>> as 520 bytes per sector, than those are EMC CLARiiON drives and you'll have
>> to reformat them via some utility like SCSITool...
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if they are EMC Clariion drives since the
> likely source of the drives was known for using EMC equipment in the
> past for years. That old equipment is being decomissioned now.

The only reasonable solution is - get those CLARiiON systems. If they
are decommissioned, you can get them cheap.

Best regards,

Iggy

In message <(E-Mail Removed)> shawn
<(E-Mail Removed)> was claimed to have wrote:

>On Wed, 27 May 2009 06:16:05 +0000 (UTC),
>(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
>>DevilsPGD <(E-Mail Removed)> kenjka:
>>> Any suggestions as to what sort of host controllers I might look at
>>> and/or suggestions for shelves/enclosures/adapters?
>>
>>Look for QLogic and Emulex FC RAID controllers... Maybe there is
>>something...
>>
>>Also, watch out for the drive low-level formatting... If they're formatted
>>as 520 bytes per sector, than those are EMC CLARiiON drives and you'll have
>>to reformat them via some utility like SCSITool...
>
>I wouldn't be surprised if they are EMC Clariion drives since the
>likely source of the drives was known for using EMC equipment in the
>past for years. That old equipment is being decomissioned now.

Good guess

However, I'm expecting that I can deal with the reformatting later...
Unfortunately my plan for a controller isn't working out, so I'm back to
the drawing board.