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bjp999 you are right the model number is HDS5C3020AlA632. The other number I posted before was from the packaging under p/n. It is already out of the box and I am going to ship it back tomorrow. Joel I had rebooted the box many times trying to get it to work, I tried everything. It just seems weird that I had same problem with two drives back to back.

I gave up on this drive. Picked up a seagate 2T and now preclearing it.

here are the specs 4.7 pro P5B-VM-DO 2G memory Super Micro 8 port sas/sata total 8 drives Sata, 1 drive ide have had server for at least four years running I do stop the array to add device but it is not on the list. I would also think it is a bad drive or cable but as I mentioned before I have changed the cable, I have already replaced the drive with a new one, I know the drive works because I have tried on a windows pc.

thanks but I have tried that before. I just switched cables again to make sure with no help.

I just bought the Hitachi 2T H3D20003254S, installed in mu box and could not get it to show up. I returned it and still does not show up. I tried it on a windows machine and it works fine. After loading unmenu it shows up but as new with no ID [Raw Disk] -- sdg Unknown 2T 84 0 2T * — sm hd sy sh I have included the syslog Is anyone else having problems with this drive? syslog-2011-04-23.zip

thanks I will give that a try.

WeeboTech after installing the script what command do I send to the server through tcp/ip to shut down?

WeeboTech is it possible to add a command in the script, so as to be able to shutdown the server using tcp/ip? thanks

Weebo Tech that worked great they all spin up within 10 seconds now. thanks for your help

Ok I got it work by using SendCRLF I have 9 drives and it takes a while for all of them to go through the sequence to spin up. Is there a way to get them up and going faster? thanks again excellent work!

thanks for clarifying that for me. I tried the telnet tower 8081 and that worked. I dint get a spinup using tcp/ip here is the log Got [send~server~up all] Opening connection to 192.168.1.142 on port 8081 server Connecting... server Connected... TCP Sending [up all] Rcvd: [spincontrol: ready on Tower at Mon May 19 23:42:34 GMT-5 2008\x0A]

I tried the following, but it does not seem to spin the drives up, here is the log Got [sEND~server~/usr/sbin/spincontrol -U -a] Opening connection to 192.168.1.142 on port 8081 Server Connecting... Server Connected... TCP Sending [/usr/sbin/spincontrol -U -a] Rcvd: [spincontrol: ready on Tower at Mon May 19 22:03:54 GMT-5 2008\x0A] and is there an "up all" command or did you mean to simply specify all drives /usr/sbin/spincontrol -U /dev/sde /dev/hdq ..............

thanks again for your time on this. I have set it up so far where it loads the script on startup. I then can use the command in telnet to spin up or spindown the drives. A couple of questions: How would I spin up all the drives at once, instead of in a sequence? How would the tcp/ip command look to spin up the drives? what the plugin that I am trying to use asks for is: ip address: ok port: what port would the server use? command: ?

thanks for the update I will go ahead and get netcat.

WeeboTech any news on the script?