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you should be able to use any seagate or hitachi SAS drive up to 146GB (as IBM does not produce harddrives any more, they usually use seagates), potentially as well bigger ones but in my experience...

Sometimes can find some nice stuff on ebay. Good luck with your endeavors!

SAS is generally SAS. So I'd say you have a really good chance that you can get a filesystem on your non-ibm drives. Just not AIX Boot.



What will come back and bite you is the firmware of the...

I've successfully transplanted an IBM xSeries drive to a P520:
Source drive was a 146G FRU 39R7342.

AIX sees it as:

Manufacturer................IBM-ESXS
Machine Type and...

You need to look at the host controller, host adapter, or host bus adapter (HBA) and HD support (kernel) before looking at disks, in my view. First, get an understanding of your system hardware /...

The answer to my question to you above might be in this document:

IBM Power 520 Technical Overview - IBM Redbooks (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4403.pdf)
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