On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 10:56 -0400, Zachary Giles wrote: > I think it's technically possible to run GNR on unsupported trays. You > may have to do some fiddling with some of the scripts, and/or you wont > get proper reporting. > Of course it probably violates 100 licenses etc etc etc. > I don't know of anyone who's done it yet. I'd like to do it.. I think > it would be great to learn it deeper by doing this. >
One imagines that GNR uses the SCSI enclosure services to talk to the shelves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_Enclosure_Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SES-2_Enclosure_Management Which would suggest that anything that supported these would work. I did some experimentation with a spare EXP810 shelf a few years ago on a FC-AL on Linux. Kind all worked out the box. The other experiment with an EXP100 didn't work so well; with the EXP100 it would only work with the 250GB and 400GB drives that came with the dam thing. With the EXP810 I could screw random SATA drives into it and it all worked. My investigations concluded that the firmware on the EXP100 shelf determined if the drive was supported, but I could not work out how to upload modified firmware to the shelf. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk Fife, United Kingdom. _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
