DE6600

[LjuboDE]

Hi guys, 

Recently i bought DE6600 but can not make it work . It is connected to lsi 9207 8e with one 8088 sas cable. I load all trays with hdds but linux mint does not show any disks .

Any advice ?

[elementx]

E5660 (DE6600) is not a JBOD but a disk array (https://www.netapp.com/media/19764-ds-3643.pdf).

If you got a E5660, you need to create disk groups and volumes, and present volumes to hosts.

E5600 documentation: https://mysupport.netapp.com/documentation/docweb/index.html?productID=62002

Stand-alone enclosures (no controller, aka "expansion enclosures") are JBODs, and on those you'd see individual disks, but you may need two cables rather than just one. NetApp doesn't sell stand-alone expansion enclosures (JBOD storage), so none of the documents contain instructions for direct attachment of JBODs.

JBODs are always supposed to be attached to the controller shelf (as the E5660 documentation shows, for example) and Linux/Windows/ESXi clients connect indirectly, through controllers.

[LjuboDE]

It seems that i need different controller unit to build JBOD . This one is
useless .

[AlexDawson · Accepted solution]

It's quite useful, just not for what you're looking to do with it 🙂 You should be able to put an IOM12 in there for unsupported use.

[Eduardo_BB]

Hey, are you sure the IOM12 will work in a DE6600? Is there a source for this?

I currently have a DE6600 with 2x 45822-00 SAS2 (6G) controllers. I have connected them directly to an HBA and can use it successfully as a JBOD without any problems.

Now, however, I wanted to upgrade to SAS3 (12G) and have gotten two IOM12 controllers (X5720A P/N 111-02850). But these do not seem to work. Only the orange warning LED lights up on both controllers and the FANs run at full speed.

[AlexDawson]

Hi there! I'm sorry to hear this hasn't worked - as I've said, this is all unapproval off-label use, so it isn't guaranteed in any way, but I'm surprised all the same. Have you put the controllers in while the shelf was powered down and then powered it up?