Nike20 IBM 4G drives

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Hi,
I'm decommisioning a few Nike20s and would like to know if its possible to use the IBM 4G drives in a K class and/or PC with suitable firmware upgrade?
If so is the firmware upgradeable via ODE?

Later,
Bill

[Bob Inglis]

No, The Nike drives have a different low level format and firmware than JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks). Even if removed from their module enclosure you will not be able to use them for anything else.

[Kostas Labroussis]

Dear Bill,

i think there should be no problem to use the
Nike20 IBM 4G drives in the K-Class.

Even if they are low level formated in a different way you can always use the mediainit
command to do a low level format (Which is unsupported) but if you dont have anything better to do with those drives you dont have
nothing to loose.

regards,
Kostas

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

strangely enough the Seagate drives 2G work no problem in either PC or K taken direct from the nike20s with no firmware upgrade...

It was just with the IBMs that I've had difficulty. The only difference I believe exists between the 2 other than f/w is a different block size.

Later,
Bill