Unsupported Drives Error - EVA P6000

[jashton]

Hello Everyone,

I have a HP P6350 controller that is connected to a storageworks D2600 disk enclosure. The enclosure appears in my command view software, but when I try to initialize the disks, it says "Error, drive is unsupported." and all of the drives light up amber.

The controllers are both HSV340 controllers connected via Mini-SAS to the disk enclosure. These controllers are running firmware: 11001100. The drives are all MB2000FBZPN  running the latest firmware. They all appear OK and operational before initializing, but display a failed state when attempting to initialize. These drives have been tested and working on other systems. 

There are no further errors that the system gives me, so I am a little stuck here. Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Jamie 

[Torsten.]

Even they look the same, drives for EVA (P6000) and servers are not interchangeable.

P6000 drives are different, they have different firmware. So you cannot use server disks with a P6000.

[Thomas Martin]

Hello,

a D2600 disk enclosure is not supported behind an EVA Controller. You need a M6612 enclosure for the P6350 Controller.

The backend looks the same. Please check also the partnumbers of the drives.

Only these drives are supported:

HP M6612 450GB 6G SAS 15K 3.5-inch HDD AP871A
HP M6612 600GB 6G SAS 15K 3.5-inch HDD AP872A
HP M6612 2TB 6G SAS 7.2K 3.5-inch HDD AW590A
HP M6612 3TB 6G SAS 7.2K 3.5-inch HDD (requires XCS 11001000 or later controller firmware) QR479A
HP M6612 4TB 6G SAS 7.2K 3.5-inch HDD (requires XCS 11001000 or later controller firmware) C8R31A

Thomas

[jashton]

What controller would support these drives and this enclosure to create a SAN? 

[jashton]

Fibre Channel SAN*