I have an IBM SystemX 3200 m3 that I’ve been using as an NAS. I have Windows Server 2016 running on it, and I had 4x 146GB SAS’s running in RAID 1.
It’s been working very well for me.
I decided to upgrade the drives, so I picked up a 4-pack of (refurb) 600gb Hitachi SAS 15k’s. However, in the RAID bios, trying to set up the new drives, they show as “unconfigured good, unsupported”. No amount of using the wizard allowed me to create a new virtual drive.
HDD Information
IBM p/n 46X0886
Hitachi 3.5" 600GB 15K RPM 64MB 6Gbp SAS Hard Drive
Hitachi p/n HUS156060VLS600
A bit of internet searching led me to tales of cross-flashing the BIOS from another controller, but it all felt a bit over my head.
So, I figured, why not just go JBOD, and do software RAID?
So I get into the pre-boot CLI, and give it a go.
$ AdpGetProp enablejbod -aALL
Adapter 0: JBOD: Disabled
Exit Code = 0x0
OK…Then
$ AdpSetProp EnableJBOD 1 -aALL
Adapter 0: Set JBOD to Enable success.
Exit Code = 0x0
So far so good…
I ran a list command to get the enclosure number and drive identifier. Then went to the “make good” step.
$ PDMakeGood -PhysDrv[252:0, 252:1, 252:2, 252:3] -Force -a0
Adapter: 0: Failed to change PD state at EnclId-252 SlotId-0.
Exit Code = 0x1
I’m not sure if that means they’re still not good, or they were already good.
In any case, I pressed on to try and JBOD them.
$ PDMakeJBOD -PhysDrv [252:0, 252:1, 252:2, 252:3] -a0
Adapter: 0: Failed to change PD state at EnclId-252 SlotId-0.
Exit Code = 0x1
So I’m stuck, no JBOD, no hardware RAID, drives not showing up in Windows, not sure what to try next.