Please be careful. I do not believe that your StorageWorks shelf has enough power for 9G drives. Buying a new supply from Compaq would not solve the problem either. Your results could be quite unhappy.
David Bulfer Director of Platform Engineering Network Appliance, Inc.
-----Original Message----- From: Priebe, Jason [mailto:priebe@wral-tv.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 1:22 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Some fun things not to try at home
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Sterling Woodcock [mailto:sirbruce@ix.netcom.com] If you find out something useful in your filer experience, plesae pass it along, even if it's of the "I didn't read the manual, so I did this and it crashed" variety.
While we're airing dirty laundry -- a couple of months ago, I mentioned to the list that we wanted to try to replace our F210's 4GB SCSI disks with 9GB disks (full shelf, no more shelves available from NetApp).
I replaced two of the 4GB disks with 9GB ones, and all was well (of course, the filer only used 4 of the 9GB, but we figured we'd dump to tape, rebuild the file system, then restore once all the drives were in place).
So I'm opening the 3rd disk carrier, removing the flex circuit from the disk drive (has anyone else ever tried to do this? How the #$%! do you do it?) by prying with a screwdriver, and the screwdriver goes right through the circuit. D'oh!
I did find that I was able to call Compaq and order a new circuit (only $96 for that tiny little piece!). Still waiting on delivery, though. I'll let you know how it goes. Wish I'd known you could still order these parts -- I could have built a couple of my own carriers and had them ready to go into the filer instead of failing a drive, disassembling the carrier, reassembling the carrier, and reinstalling.
Jason Priebe WRAL OnLine http://www.wral-tv.com/