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 Post subject: mixing drives between 7000 & 8000 series
PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 3:35 pm 

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Does anyone know if its supported to put 7000 series drives into the 8000 series? Has anyone tried/done this? If so, what was the experience like? Did the difference in SAS interface speed make a difference for anything other than SSD?


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 Post subject: Re: mixing drives between 7000 & 8000 series
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 1:50 pm 

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I have not seen any 7k drives listed as supported for any 8k model.

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 Post subject: Re: mixing drives between 7000 & 8000 series
PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:25 pm 

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Hi adeel, you can use 7k series drives in 8k series, but not simple way. You need to hack 3PAR - get root password and change files in firmware database to allow for 7k drives to run in 8k drive cages. For example on 7k cage is DCN1, but on 8k it is DCN2. So you need list DCN2 as allowed jbod type in firmware db for particular disk you wanna use. Them you need reload fw db and drives will be working good. I do this for some SSDs and also FC class drives. Health check only reports, that drives are running on 2x 6Gbps instead of 2x 12G, but it is no problem at all, because each drive have two 6G links, so in total 12G, also sufficient for older SAS SSD.


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                                                          ----------------(MB)----------------
  ID -Name- ---Model---- -Serial- Nodes Master ClusterLED TotalCap AllocCap  FreeCap FailedCap
xx 3par   HP_3PAR 8400 xxxxxxx      2      1 n/a        14084096  2064384 12019712         0

Id CagePos State  ----Node_WWN---- --MFR-- -----Model------ -Serial- -FW_Rev- Protocol MediaType -----AdmissionTime-----
 0 0:1:0   normal 5000CCA013232E37 HITACHI HRALP0400GBASSLC XWVMATGA 3P00     SAS      SLC       2018-11-14 18:20:22 UTC
 1 0:0:0   normal 5000CCA013232C53 HITACHI HRALP0400GBASSLC XWVMANKA 3P00     SAS      SLC       2018-11-14 18:20:22 UTC
 2 0:2:0   normal 5000CCA0132C37E3 HITACHI HRALP0400GBASSLC XWVT9W2A 3P00     SAS      SLC       2018-11-14 18:20:22 UTC
 3 0:3:0   normal 5000CCA0132C3EC7 HITACHI HRALP0400GBASSLC XWVTAA9A 3P00     SAS      SLC       2018-11-14 18:20:22 UTC
 4 0:4:0   normal 5000CCA01337677F HITACHI HRALP0400GBASSLC XWVZGL1A 3P00     SAS      SLC       2018-11-14 18:20:22 UTC
 5 0:5:0   normal 5000CCA013376BEF HITACHI HRALP0400GBASSLC XWVZGW6A 3P00     SAS      SLC       2018-11-14 18:20:22 UTC
 6 0:6:0   normal 5000CCA0132C3807 HITACHI HRALP0400GBASSLC XWVT9WBA 3P00     SAS      SLC       2018-11-14 18:20:23 UTC
 7 0:7:0   normal 5000CCA0133764BB HITACHI HRALP0400GBASSLC XWVZGDAA 3P00     SAS      SLC       2018-11-14 18:20:23 UTC
 8 0:8:0   normal 5000CCA013217BEB HITACHI HRALP0400GBASSLC XWVLDVVA 3P00     SAS      SLC       2018-11-14 18:20:23 UTC
 9 0:9:0   normal 5000CCA0132C48A3 HITACHI HRALP0400GBASSLC XWVTAZNA 3P00     SAS      SLC       2018-11-14 18:20:23 UTC
10 0:10:0  normal 5000CCA01D9C3507 HGST    HCEP1200S5xnN010 KZJSX4ZG 3P00     SAS      Magnetic  2018-11-16 21:40:43 UTC
11 0:11:0  normal 5000CCA01D778E2F HGST    HCEP1200S5xnN010 KZJ3S8YH 3P00     SAS      Magnetic  2018-11-19 19:19:54 UTC
12 0:12:0  normal 5000CCA01D9D2BAF HGST    HCEP1200S5xnN010 KZJTEL6G 3P00     SAS      Magnetic  2018-11-19 19:19:54 UTC
13 0:13:0  normal 5000CCA01D7164FF HGST    HCEP1200S5xnN010 KZJ0B7UG 3P00     SAS      Magnetic  2018-11-19 19:19:54 UTC
14 0:14:0  normal 5000CCA01D71D5BB HGST    HCEP1200S5xnN010 KZJ0LSKG 3P00     SAS      Magnetic  2018-11-19 19:19:54 UTC
15 0:15:0  normal 5000CCA01D9B2ED3 HGST    HCEP1200S5xnN010 KZJSAPNG 3P00     SAS      Magnetic  2018-11-19 19:19:54 UTC
16 0:16:0  normal 5000CCA01D9D4C3B HGST    HCEP1200S5xnN010 KZJTHSDG 3P00     SAS      Magnetic  2018-11-19 19:19:54 UTC
17 0:17:0  normal 5000CCA01D7A20BF HGST    HCEP1200S5xnN010 KZJ554KH 3P00     SAS      Magnetic  2018-11-19 19:19:54 UTC

Component -------Summary Description------- Qty
PD        PD ports at wrong SAS speed        18
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        1 total                              18

Component -Identifier- ------------------------Detailed Description------------------------
PD        pd:0         PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:1         PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:2         PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:3         PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:4         PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:5         PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:6         PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:7         PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:8         PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:9         PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:10        PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:11        PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:12        PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:13        PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:14        PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:15        PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:16        PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports
PD        pd:17        PD SAS speed is 6Gbps instead of 12Gbps on both ports


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