We are in a somewhat similar situation here. We have one F330, with Seagate Hawk 4 GB disks (ST15230N), running 4.3.3D2. The system is 2.5 years old. We have lost *one* disk (so the hot spare was put into use), and we are thus running a system with no hot spare. We don't particularly like this situation.
The Netapp vendor here in Norway tells us that they can no longer get hold of new ST15230Ns, and in general there seems to be quite a problem to get hold of *narrow* disks that can be used with the existing controllers.
Questions:
- Does anybody know of narrow disks that can be purchased today and which will work with 4.3.3D2? (I have come to point that I no longer care if the disks are Netapp approved - I just want to have a reasonable chance of the disks working.)
- We have a number of (used) DEC RZ29B 4 GB disks, fw revision 0007. Will these work?
- We feel that the F330 is more or less abandoned, and any kind of upgrade with new disk shelves etc. is going to extremely expensive. Is this a correct assessment?
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
On Tue, 4 May 1999 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
They should. The only way to really find out is to put it them to test. If you could create another volume you could test this fairly safely. The wide disks should work fine as well, as long as you can bridge the physical connector differences.
I'd rather put these in than not have a hot spare. I wish I had a couple of these here. I have a an F330 here that is not in production right now. I could do some testing providing that I have some 4GB drives.
At least the hardware seems to be. There is support for the F330s in 5.2.1P2 which is the rev I run on them fairly uneventfully.
Tom
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