Problems with StorEdge 3510 FC

Andy.Kannberg_at_lgphilips-displays.com
Date: 05/26/04

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Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:04:40 +0200

    Hi all,

    Last week our newly SUN StorEdge 3510 FC arrived. Currently, I am (trying)
    to configure the damn thing, but for some reason, I can't seem to execute a
    'newfs' on the LUN's
    Configuration is as follows:

    2 logical drives, one in RAID 1 (consisting out of 4 disks) one in RAID 5
    (consisting out of 7 disks), 1 global hotspare
    The RAID 5 LD is divided into three partitions. The RAID 1 LD is one
    partition. The partitions are mapped to a host, so all four LUN's are
    visible there. So far so good.
    But, when I want to give the LUN's a filesystem, it seems that the newfs
    command hangs. It looks like this:

    root@nlastis1# newfs -f 4096 /dev/rdsk/c2t40d0s6
    newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c2t40d0s6: (y/n)? y
    Cylinder groups must have a multiple of 16 cylinders with the given
    parameters
    Rounded cgsize up to 256
    Warning: insufficient space in super block for
    rotational layout tables with nsect 127, ntrack 127, and nrpos 8.
    Omitting tables - file system performance may be impaired.
    Warning: 5 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
    /dev/rdsk/c2t40d0s6: 629111640 sectors in 39005 cylinders of 127 tracks,
    127 sectors
            307183.4MB in 2438 cyl groups (16 c/g, 126.01MB/g, 15808 i/g)
    super-block backups (for fsck -F ufs -o b=#) at:
     32, 258224, 516416, 774608,

    After the fourth superblock, it just stops.

    As for the message "Warning: insufficient space in super block for
    rotational layout tables with nsect 127, ntrack 127, and nrpos 8", this
    seems to be a regular message on large
    disks. At least, that is what a Google search comes up with.

    I've already configured the cylinders/heads/sectors to <65536/255/255, as
    described in par. 5.5.10 of the 3510 installation manual, as there are
    filesystems bigger than 253 GB, but even this seems not to work.

    when trussing the mkfs / newfs processes, I don't get any output on screen.

    Anyone can give me a clue /hint / tip / solution ??

    met vriendelijke groet/with kind regards,

    Andy Kannberg
    System Manager
    SITE UNIX group
    LG Philips Displays Eindhoven
    The Netherlands
    tel: 040 - 2304678
    fax: 040 - 2785405
    e-mail: Andy.Kannberg@LGPhilips-Displays.com
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