Re: DEC equivalent of Mylex DAC960?

From: Dr. J.C.Hill (hill_at_hep.phy.cam.ac.uk)
Date: 01/06/04 

Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 12:57:51 +0000

Benjamin Gawert wrote:
> Mike Dorn wrote:
>
>
>>I think these were commonly referred to as a "Raid Array 200" devices,
>>also went by name of SWXCR. IIRC, DEC part number was KZP<S|A><A|C>,
>>where one digit indicated 10mhz vs 20mhz, and the other indicated one
>>or 3 scsi channels.
>
>
> Thank You very much. So I have an KZPAC...
>
>
>>I used a number of
>>these on Alphas running unix at my last job. While they took awhile
>>to
>>configure, they were pretty solid performers, and never gave any of
>>the
>>goofy "lost configuration--kiss your data goodbye" problems that my
>>coworkers had to put up with from the HP raid controllers on their NT
>>boxes. Failed drive replacement could be done hot, without
>>interrupting
>>production.
>
>
> Sounds promising...
>
>
>>They do require separate firmware, but it stays on the
>>card. They also need a stand-alone configuration utility, which runs
>>under ARC. (You have to shut Unix down & boot ARC to run the utility
>>from floppy, and it takes a LONG time to initialize a new
>>mirror/raidset.)
>
>
> Do You know where to find the latest firmware and the config utility for the
> KZPAC? I looked around at the HP Website for Alha systems but couldn't find
> it...

ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/Alpha/firmware/v6.6/utility/swxcrmgr/

looks promising for the firmware and the configuration utility. I'm
still running a KZPAC-CA in an AlphaServer 1200 and I've had no problems
with it. I'm running firmware 249 with a Tru64 V4.0F system. There is a
version 270 of the firmware, but I have a memory that this was alleged
to be problematic (though this may have been an unjustified slur - maybe
someone else out there knows more?).
Regards,
John Hill

>
> Benjamin
>

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