I had a big Problem,
we had a fault raid 5 System on an Adaptec 5805,
so I order 10 drives for replace them,
on the Label of the drives are written:
Seagate ST3400755SS
PN:9EA066-034
Firmware 4C03

but wenn I try to connect it, I will get a Firmware PANIC message on the 5805,
so I connect it to an other Controller 7805 with success,
It will be reconised but,
it Shows a Drivename DKS2E-J400SS (hitachi ?) with different Firmware and size and Unknow Blocksize
so I cant use it,
have someone a Firmware for this drives ? so I can Flash it to Firmware 0003 or something,
I can´t send it back,
they are brand new

I Need it really quick, because the Raid will fail soon,

thanks for any help

First off, before you even think of trying to rebuild that RAID, BACKUP THE DATA!!! Assuming it's still operating at this point that is.

If you've got drives starting to fail a rebuild is a sure way to finish a few of them off for good.

Step one should be to take a full sector by sector clone of each individual drive onto a good drive as a backup.

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first I Need to get the new drives running

No, first you need to backup the data, by the time you'll figure out how to make the new drives up and running, it might be too late.

System is online, only smarterror, but the new drives have a different firmware,
That is the problem

There is no way to reflash drives, so you need to buy other drives or use other controller.

So i should put 10 brand new harddisk into trash ?
Any other solution ?

Sell it and buy other ones. There is solution but you need to pay for revers engineering to find out how to do what you want to do. It will cost you more than 10 drives.

Could the solution be as simple as reformatting the drives with a standard block size, eg 512 bytes?

Product Manual Cheetah NS SAS ST3400755SS:
http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/disc/manuals/enterprise/cheetah/NS/SAS/100453994b.pdf



FYI, Dell's NS25 firmware is available here, but I think it would be a bad idea apply it:

Seagate SAS Drive model ST3400755SS firmware version NS25:
http://www.dell.com/support/home/ba/en/babsdt1/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverid=FC4N8
http://downloads.dell.com/sas-hdd/FRMW_WIN_R168402.EXE

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