We discussed this in our HPC group meeting yesterday. I've long been
dissatisfied with PERC controllers, but this is now a show-stopper for
me. I might order Dell, but not the PERC, ever again. Who do they think
they are? NetApp?
gerry
Reuti wrote:
Hi,
Am 12.02.2010 um 09:51 schrieb Kilian CAVALOTTI:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Rahul Nabar <rpna...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Rahul Nabar <rpna...@gmail.com> wrote:
I came across this very interesting thread on a related mailing list
that I thought would be quite relevant to those of us using Dell
hardware. Apparently Dell has started hardware-blocking hard-drives
that are not "Dell certified".
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/dell_perc_11th_gen_qualified_hdds_only/
are they just blocking non-qualified drives, but you could still install
qualified ones bought not from Dell? And: will their qualified ones work
on other controllers?
This sounds like ProStor prevents usage of other disks in RDX drives'
cartridges (AFAIK they are doing this by ATA passwords*), and you are
limited to their cartridges. And in emergency case you can't use the
disks with other controllers due to this.
-- Reuti
*
http://www.heise.de/foren/S-Re-Erfahrungen-Tandberg-RDX-QuikStor/forum-7273/msg-16513128/read/
Cheers,
--
Kilian
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