146 GB and MA8000

[Roneil Icatar]

Quick question. Are the 146 GB drives supported in the MA8000? Thanks.

[Jan-Erik Karlsson_2]

yes you need ACS version 8.7 patch level 4
in the controller(s)

[Sean_Streets]

Ditto.

ACS Upgrade to 8.7 and whatever the latest CLCP revision is.

[dentistcorn]

You do not need Patch 4 on ACS 8.7 for 146 GB drives.

[Mike Naime]

8.6F-13 OR 8.7F-0 as a minimum is running the 146GB disks in my HSG80's. (EMA style)

If you are talking about the Blue Brick stuff.... NO!

[dentistcorn]

Blue Bricks or SSB type drives only go up to 36 GB.

[Rob Buxton]

We're running a number of 146GB Disks in an EMA12000 with ACS 8.7F-2.

The patches are now up to 8.7F-6 but they're pretty specialised.

One thing that caught me and I'm not sure if it's just 146GB Disk related.
Added the disks, created a RaidSet, init'd the raidset all okay and then got hundreds (possibly thousands) of HSG reported errors when I formatted it under Windows.
To fix it I removed the Unit and raidset Init'd the disks individually before creating the RaidSet and then Init'd that. Formats etc then worked without error.

[George Quist]

Hello all..

is there a web pointer ( currently working/valid of course ! ) to the location of the HSG80 V8.7F-5 and V8.7F-6 patches that can be posted here..

thanks,
George Quist