I have over 180 Compaq servers and this is the first time I have heard of anything like this. I find their hardware to solid. The SmartArray 532 is an Ultra3 controller. They have the SMartArray 6xx for U160 (actually U320). I run most of my newer servers with either a 5302/64, or the integrated 5i controller, and the U320 drives. I have on occasion received bad hardware. I would have them ship you a new controller. adam "Joshua Vince" <joshv@xxxxxxxxxx To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > cc: Sent by: Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Compaq Servers thin-bounce@freel ists.org 06/05/2003 11:27 AM Please respond to thin Yes, they normally work just fine as they are backward compatible. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Snyder [mailto:steven_snyder@xxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 2:00 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] OT: Compaq Servers Okay Compaq Gurus - I've got two brand spankin new HP Proliant ML330 G3 servers - on both servers, the hard drives (10K U320) work just fine on the included U320 scsi controller. But when I connect them to the SmartArray 532 controller, it can't see them. Sure, it'll spin the drives up, but when you try to create a logical drive, it reports "no physical drives found." After 90 minutes on the phone with Compaq, they decided that either the MBs or the SmartArry cards are bad. I find that hard to believe (well, not really, I'm not a big fan of Compaq equipment) and I say that it's because the SmartArray only does U160, and hence, isn't communicating with the U320 drives correctly. Compaq says it should work. Needless to say, I'll let the Compaq SE come work on it and waste his time. So my question - has anyone here used U320 drives on U160 controllers, especially Compaq, successfully? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - Appsense Technologies New! AppSense Optimizer is a new product from AppSense=20 designed to increase the user capacity of your servers.=20 http://www.appsense.com/ ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or=20 set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - Appsense Technologies New! AppSense Optimizer is a new product from AppSense designed to increase the user capacity of your servers. http://www.appsense.com/ ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - Appsense Technologies New! AppSense Optimizer is a new product from AppSense designed to increase the user capacity of your servers. http://www.appsense.com/ ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm