I solved every problem I had with the HP SAS Expander. All the drives having the same ID, not working reliably with an LSI 9260 or 9361 adapter. Not working with a P420 adapter ...
I replaced it with a Lenovo SAS Expander which just plain works like magic with my LSI 9361-8i controller.
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Of course Dell/EMC will take money to provide extended support for this old stuff. The thing is, even if my home IT budget that could absorb the $90k reinstatement fee, who in their right mind would pay that? This thing is going in my basement, running power is just 600W (so i am told), so...
I was able to save an array from the scrap pile at work. Two Control Stations, Data Movers, a DPE and a few DAE15's with 4TB NL-SAS drives
Software wise, Its pretty out of date, and there is no way on this covid-ridden-world that I am going to put this under support with EMC to get the software...