topic Re: LC3 Compatible Disks? in Netservers

LC3 Compatible Disks?

Ian Lowe_1 — Mon, 17 May 2004 05:25:38 GMT

I have a customer with a Netserver LC3, which we have been looking to provide with more disk space.

We have tried to add a couple of 36Gb Fujitsu SCA2/LVD drives (in D3349 Hot swap trays) and predictably, the Netserver isn't playing along - the Leds in the bay flash when the disk is scanned, then go out. The disks are not spun up, and obviously don't get recognised in the BIOS.

Really just looking for some opinions here - what are our options? the server needs quite a bit more disk space to be useful, and we'd rather not waste the cash already spent on the disks.

Re: LC3 Compatible Disks?

Leonard Davison — Mon, 17 May 2004 06:13:47 GMT

Ian...

I have done this with LC3's.

Provided Hot Swap is not a huge criteria, I have removed the entire hotswap chassis and placed 200gb IDE drives in the HP Non-HS drive trays. I then use a Promise IDE Raid card. I end up with 595GB of usable drive space in Raid 5...

if this helps.......

Re: LC3 Compatible Disks?

e4services — Tue, 18 May 2004 08:30:42 GMT

Yes, these can be problematic. We do have large drives availble for this and other older Netservers, in 36, 72, 146, and 181 GB capacities.