Hi, All MD3x00x enclosure do only support Dell drives. In fact all other drive are reported as 'not certified'. You won't be able to get non-Dell drives running properly.
Jens. -----Original Message----- From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Michael Collins Sent: 04 February 2010 07:07 To: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: Non dell disks in MD3000 chassis? Hey, We have a number of MD3000s, currently they have 15 x 146GB SAS 15000 RPM Dell disks. Following some consolidation work we have a few which MD3000s which we don't need in production right now. We would like to use some of them as a large pool of scratch space for some non production applications. We are planning on filling them with 2TB SATA drives and using software raid on the host to build large volumes. We got some quotes from our Dell team, but even after some back and forth it's still a lot more then we are willing to spend for what amounts to an experiment. Does anyone have experience purchasing cheap non Dell drives and putting them in Dell caddies? In particular, does anyone know if the MD series have a list of allowed disk firmwares or something similar? Cheers! Michael _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
