Hi Guys,

new here, have been reading for the past day or two regarding this issue: i have a bunch of Seagate 15K SAS 450GB Disks, Model: ST3450857SS out of a NetApp EXN3000 and i would like to use them in my DS3400.

When i plug the drive in to the DS3400 i get an "incompatible" error:

Status: Incompatible
Mode: Incompatible
Raw capacity: 410.309GB
Usable capacity: 410.309GB
Drive Type: SAS
Firmware version: NA03
Serial number: xxxx
Vendor: NETAPP


Just as a side note the drive does have an IBM FRU: 45E7977 ,so i was hoping i could get away with using the drives in an the DS3400

in my research i found an IBM release to upgrade F/W on this drive model for the DS series:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1004765
https://download4.boulder.ibm.com/sar/CMA/SDA/04r5v/0/ibm_fw_ds3khdd_4.19_anyos_anycpu.chg



I have obtained the .LOD file for the drive from "ibm_fw_ds3khdd_4.11_anyos_anycpu" ---> ST3450857SS_BA59.LOD

but the question is how do i get the F/W onto the drive? can i just load the .LOD on to the drive through DS Management Software: (i.e. below) or is there a better way to get this job done?:


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2.0 Installation and Setup
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2.1 Ensure that all activities to the controllers is stopped while
performing hard disk drive (HDD) firmware updates with all levels
of controller firmware.

The storage subsystems can update all drives in a configuration for
up to four different drive types at the same time.

For DS Storage Manager Client version 2.x or 10.x, perform the
following steps to download hard disk drive firmware:

NOTE: Updating hard disk drive firmware for either ST31000424SS or
ST32000444SS requires that firmware version BE51 be downloaded to
the hard disk drives prior to upgrading to firmware version BC26
or later.

a. THE DRIVE FIRMWARE UPDATE WILL REQUIRE DOWNTIME. When
updating drive firmware ensure that no HOST I/O is being
sent to the storage controllers.

b. Open the Subsystem Management window.

c. Click Advanced => Maintenance => Download => Drive Firmware.
Follow the online instructions.



Any help would be much appreciated!

Just thought i would add a note (some progress over the past few hours)

in DS storage manager i can select the ST3450857SS_BA59.LOD firmware, however it comes back to me with an error saying that no drives match this model. So after looking in the storage subsystem profile --> Drives. The Product ID of the "ST3450857SS" is X411_S15K7420A15

Thus DS manager will not let me upgrade the firmware.

So the question is now how do i get rid of X411_S15K7420A15 and get the drive to a "standard" ST345085SS ?