<old man alert> Shades of the mainframe! WAY BACK when "Winchester" was the new SCSI disk technology, both IBM and Unisys did this. Their "cheap SCSI" disk controllers were modified so that you could only attach disk that the mainframe company provided. Which they charged 10 times the going rate for.
Still, it was cheaper and faster than the old "washing machine" removable disk drives. </old man alert> Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: dell rant Ive been a solid dell guy for years but this is about as aggravating as it comes. We have a new server that cannot get the 2.5 15k rpm drives for several weeks due to manufacturing problems. We went and got drives from hp and the drive caddys so everything is great right? NOT, if you have a new Dell 700 raid controller you can only use Dell certified drives, the drives are 'blocked' on the controller >From the manual "troubleshooting"section: Issue: One or more physical disks is displayed as Blocked and can not be configured. Corrective Action PERC H700 and PERC H800 cards support only Dell-certified SAS and SATA hard drives and solid-state drives (SSD). If you are using a Dell-certified drive but are still experiencing this problem, perform the following actions: 1. Check the backplane for damage. 2. Check the SAS cables. 3. Reseat the physical disk. 4. Contact Dell Technical Support if the problem persists ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
