I have a stack of 10k sas drives from a netapp appliance, but I do not have a netapp appliance. I do have hp dl380 G7 with an internal (MERGED to the mainboard) P410I SAS RAID controller.
The controller recognizes these 146gb 15k drives. For reasons unknown, will not recognize any of the 450gb 6gb/s SAS drives I pulled out of the netapp trays. The 146gb drives are too small for me to use for the array I would like to build. I would like to use these 450gb drives - and for what the cost on eBay it seems to buy an entire used netapp appliance, it seems is almost the same as what it would cost me to buy only one LSI HBA card.... (frustrated).
Can anyone comment on their advice or experience with my situation ? I am ready to give up on the 410i controller. I believe I probably need to get a HBA controller, but I do not know if one of those universal LSI controllers will recognize the SAS drives I have, or if they can ever only be used in a NETAPP appliance, or if I need to burn some firmware, or other issue.
The controller recognizes these 146gb 15k drives. For reasons unknown, will not recognize any of the 450gb 6gb/s SAS drives I pulled out of the netapp trays. The 146gb drives are too small for me to use for the array I would like to build. I would like to use these 450gb drives - and for what the cost on eBay it seems to buy an entire used netapp appliance, it seems is almost the same as what it would cost me to buy only one LSI HBA card.... (frustrated).
Can anyone comment on their advice or experience with my situation ? I am ready to give up on the 410i controller. I believe I probably need to get a HBA controller, but I do not know if one of those universal LSI controllers will recognize the SAS drives I have, or if they can ever only be used in a NETAPP appliance, or if I need to burn some firmware, or other issue.