"DoN. Nichols" <dnichols@d-and-d.com> wrote in message
news:slrng0itmr.5uf.dnichols@Katana.d-and-d.com...
> I recently acquired a couple of 146 GB Seagate FC drives marked
> with a "FCV" suffix, and with in large print on the label "12V ONLY".
> (Full designation -- "ST3146807FCV")
>
> These do not work in my Sun Fire 280R (where I am already using
> two of the same drives except for the 'V' tag on the suffix.
>
> They also don't work in an external FC housing -- Criiterion/EMC
> -- which works fine with the 36 GB drives which came with it (in use as
> a ZFS array) or with the 9GB drives which came in its companion -- but I
> can't see paying the power costs to run 1.6" 9GB drives these days. :-)
>
> Does anyone know what I would need to run these drives -- or
> what modifications I might need in the drive cage for either the Sun
> Fire 280R or a Sun Blade 1000 (I'm using both here)?

Are the drives recognized at the ok> prompt if you do a probe-scsi?
You may need to first set auto-boot? to false and do a reset-all.

Do the drives appear to even be spinning up?

Sun sells the ST3146807FC (minus the V) for use with the V480/V490/V880/V890
and several disk arrays.
A Sun Blade 1000 sees this model fine internally or in a fibre multipack.

Trinean