40pin FC-AL Fibre / Fiber Channel Hard Drive

I've recently come into possession of some Fibre Channel 40 pin drives
(ST3146807FC). These are FC-AL, unfortunately I misinterpreted the
specs on a controller I was looking at before I snagged the drives.

Any suggestions as to what sort of host controllers I might look at
and/or suggestions for shelves/enclosures/adapters?

I've got 8 drives, ideally I'd run 4 per server across two servers,
although if the cost difference is substantial I could put them on a
single box.

On Wed, 27 May 2009 06:16:05 +0000 (UTC),
lid wrote:

DevilsPGD kenjka:
Any suggestions as to what sort of host controllers I might look at
and/or suggestions for shelves/enclosures/adapters?

Look for QLogic and Emulex FC RAID controllers... Maybe there is
something...

Also, watch out for the drive low-level formatting... If they're formatted
as 520 bytes per sector, than those are EMC CLARiiON drives and you'll have
to reformat them via some utility like SCSITool...

I wouldn't be surprised if they are EMC Clariion drives since the
likely source of the drives was known for using EMC equipment in the
past for years. That old equipment is being decomissioned now.

Hi!

shawn wrote:
On Wed, 27 May 2009 06:16:05 +0000 (UTC),
lid wrote:

DevilsPGD kenjka:
Any suggestions as to what sort of host controllers I might look at
and/or suggestions for shelves/enclosures/adapters?
Look for QLogic and Emulex FC RAID controllers... Maybe there is
something...

Also, watch out for the drive low-level formatting... If they're formatted
as 520 bytes per sector, than those are EMC CLARiiON drives and you'll have
to reformat them via some utility like SCSITool...

I wouldn't be surprised if they are EMC Clariion drives since the
likely source of the drives was known for using EMC equipment in the
past for years. That old equipment is being decomissioned now.

The only reasonable solution is - get those CLARiiON systems. If they
are decommissioned, you can get them cheap.

Best regards,

Iggy

In message shawn
was claimed to have wrote:

On Wed, 27 May 2009 06:16:05 +0000 (UTC),
wrote:

DevilsPGD kenjka:
Any suggestions as to what sort of host controllers I might look at
and/or suggestions for shelves/enclosures/adapters?

Look for QLogic and Emulex FC RAID controllers... Maybe there is
something...

Also, watch out for the drive low-level formatting... If they're formatted
as 520 bytes per sector, than those are EMC CLARiiON drives and you'll have
to reformat them via some utility like SCSITool...

I wouldn't be surprised if they are EMC Clariion drives since the
likely source of the drives was known for using EMC equipment in the
past for years. That old equipment is being decomissioned now.

Good guess

However, I'm expecting that I can deal with the reformatting later...
Unfortunately my plan for a controller isn't working out, so I'm back to
the drawing board.