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Hi,
I am working with Stone Storage is R18. Some of the drives have bad sectors. The HDD model no is Seagate ST 318203 FC.Discreet discontinue offering 18gb and offering trade in to R36 but the cost is so high that i must wait for budget approval from my boss.
So I bought several units from ebay and try to replace some of those bad drives. However the new drives are not even detected by Irix Hinv. If drives not detected by Irix Hinv, the stone program will not detect it.
The ebay seller told me that the drives was pulled from PC JBOD array and were working before he sold them to me. To prove his word, i try those drives in my friend PC JBOD array and the ebay seller is right… those drives were working perfectly.
Now, i believe that R18 require HDD that has special code in the firmware.
THIS IS NOT STONES LICENSING ISSUE AS DRIVES ARE NOT EVEN DETECTED BY HINV. IF DRIVES NOT LICENSED, STILL DETECTED BY HINV BUT DURING STONE PROGRAM THE DRIVES LABELED “UL”.
Can anyone tell me on what utility to explore seagate firmware and the parameter in the hdd to make seagate drives compatibel to R18?
Thanks.
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