Proliant ML350 4Gp cables/SCSI/RAID

[bfiver]

Hi,

1) My proliant has a drive cage (pn: 366862-001).
I bought a 68-pin SCSI drive (Seagate 73GB) and as I see it, the cage allows only 80-pin disks. Is there any workaround for this? I knew that the ports on the mainboard were 68-pin, that's why I didn't bought the 80-pin disk.
I'm also buying a SmartArray 641 for it, which has also 68-pin ports. Should I buy another cage which supports 68-pin SCSI disks?

2) While using SCSI disks, can I also install SATA disks in the server? Do I need to buy another disk cage?

Sorry for the newbie questions, I'm just a little confused.

Thanks.

[Oleg Koroz]

Options that available hot-plug cage duplex or simplex or two bay hot plug cage or SATA/SAS cage
You can mount two none hot-plug HDD with brackets in upper bays. Otherwise you need drive caddy to convert from 68 to 80 as power included with 80. U320 drive caddy can be a solution, but not guaranteed fort all SW, Monitoring and performance and even communication to work properly.
If you decide to use two non hot-plug here is part number for cable 367168-001

[Oleg Koroz]

Here is something that you might want to investigate ......
Non-hot-plug hard drive cage (ML350 G4 only)
370782-001, can't guarantee as never had chance to try, but someone might, hopefully it use same railing point and it wonâ t be a problem to mount.

[bfiver]

I'm even a bit more confused now.
What if I replace my 68-pin disk to a 80-pin one, will SA641 work with it (having a 366862-001 cage)?

I'm not sure if you've answered the 2) question. (my english is bad)

[Oleg Koroz · Accepted solution]

1). If you have option to get original U320 hot-plug drives - please do so.
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/drives-enclosures/hotplug-ultra3/index.html

With previous model ML350 G4 two cages were used:
366862-001 hard drive cage with SCSI simplex / duplex backplane
370782-001 hard drive cage non-hot-plug

Per quick specs G4p won't take 370782-001.


2). For SATA drives you need SATA/SAS Cage 390547-001 it takes Up to 6 HDD it will replace SCSI cage.


Two bay cages designed to take only 2 x U320 SCSI HDD 244059-B21 and can be installed in upper media bays.

[bfiver]

Thanks Oleg, everything seems clear now. I decided to switch my two 68pin disks to 80pin (but it's still Seagate, not Compaq).

I'll put them in my cage, connect the cage to the Smart Array 641 and hopefully it will work :) I guess I'll also drop the SATA drives, buying two other HDD cages is not an option for me...

Thanks again.