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Repurposing HPE 3PAR Storage: Getting 520-Byte SAS Drives Working on Linux
Repurposing HPE 3PAR Storage: Getting 520-Byte SAS Drives Working on Linux A few months ago, we won an auction for some server equipment we needed. As is usually the case with large equipment lots, the servers we actually wanted came with quite a bit of additional enterprise hardware that we had no immediate use for. Part of that equipment was an HPE 3PAR storage system. The lot included the original HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7200 equipment along with eight 2U, 24-bay SAS disk shelves. The shelves were populated with roughly 1 TB-class enterprise SAS drives. ...