From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jan 14 9:11:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C558B37B401 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 09:11:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE (ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0EHF4X12656 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 18:15:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 18:15:04 +0100 (CET) From: "O. Hartmann" To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: AMI MegaRAID 1600 series incompatibility with IBM DDYS harddrives Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear Sirs. We obtained an AMI MegaRAID Enterprise 1600 RAID controller these days and a bunch of IBM DDYS 36LZX drives. After several trials to get a working array with these drives and several failures (drives not recognized, sproradic deaths of mostly the last drives in the array) I got on Friday a response from our AMI general distributor in Germany. They told me that there has been revealed an incompatibility between AMI RAID controllers and the new IBM DDYS drives. I was told to contact IBM (OEM support) to obtain a kind of firmware update for this harddrives, which seems to be regarding to a series of harrdrives within this product range. AMI also offered a new BIOS/Firmware Update on their site for the AMI MegaRAID Enterprise/Elite 1600 controller series, but I do not know what this update targets. Oliver - MfG O. Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Klimadatenserver-Abteilung des IPA IT Netz- und Systembetreuung Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 D-55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message