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"Non-Warranted" Drive
Replacing a defunct drive in a Netfinity 5000 on an IBM 4M controller.
Replacement drive is exactly the same model, although not rebranded by IBM (from Seagate OEM). After ServerRAID Manager rebuilt the drive, it said the drive was a "non-warranted physical drive" and refused to recognize it. Any ideas as to why this might be happening and what can be done about it? |
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"RichLich" wrote in message om... Replacing a defunct drive in a Netfinity 5000 on an IBM 4M controller. Replacement drive is exactly the same model, although not rebranded by IBM (from Seagate OEM). After ServerRAID Manager rebuilt the drive, it said the drive was a "non-warranted physical drive" and refused to recognize it. Any ideas as to why this might be happening and what can be done about it? The seagete drives are not installed with IBM´s firmware, but "non-warranted physical drive" does not allways mean it doesn´t work, but it is not supported (or warrented) by IBM. I have had several server running with these "non-warranted" disks without problems, but I have also had som problem with arrays unable to rebuild failed drives, or gennerating SCSI time outs. Best regards Johnny |
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Previously Johnson_dk wrote:
"RichLich" wrote in message om... Replacing a defunct drive in a Netfinity 5000 on an IBM 4M controller. Replacement drive is exactly the same model, although not rebranded by IBM (from Seagate OEM). After ServerRAID Manager rebuilt the drive, it said the drive was a "non-warranted physical drive" and refused to recognize it. Any ideas as to why this might be happening and what can be done about it? The seagete drives are not installed with IBM´s firmware, but "non-warranted physical drive" does not allways mean it doesn´t work, but it is not supported (or warrented) by IBM. I have had several server running with these "non-warranted" disks without problems, but I have also had som problem with arrays unable to rebuild failed drives, or gennerating SCSI time outs. Aha. That would be a good reason to switch to a storage solution that will let you use generic drives and "warrant" them. After all what do you do if you need a replacement and IBM does not provide the disks anymore or only at a ridiculous price? Typical lock-in-hardware. Very bad from a technical point of view. Arno -- For email address: lastname AT tik DOT ee DOT ethz DOT ch GnuPG: ID:1E25338F FP:0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" - Tacitus |
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Hi,
I have also a problem with this raid controler a have a raid5 over 4 disks non hotswaps 1 has crashed and i replaced the hard disk with original IBM but my raid doesn't rebuild Im not able to manual rebuild the RAID!!!! any idea's ? ============== Posted through www.HowToFixComputers.com/bb - free access to hardware troubleshooting newsgroups. |
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