SCSI disk disappeared at reboot

From: David Mathog (mathog_at_caltech.edu)
Date: 11/21/05

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    I recently installed a dual ultra320 card into our V880. (Solaris 8,
    fully patched). After turning it on and doing:

    ok> probe-scsi-all
    (saw it)
    ok> boot
    ...
    /usr/sbin/devfsadm
    format (see the disk)
    newfs
    etc.
    In other words, no problem with that disk at all.

    Today I was trying to get the USB working and ran a script from Sun
    called "usbconfig.txt", which caused the system to shut down. When
    it went into the maintenance level I also changed ONLY diag-level via:

    /usr/sbin/eeprom diag-level=min

    and rebooted. This thankfully reduced the boot time from nearly half an
    hour (which was due to installing the most recent openboot recently) to
    just a couple of minutes.

    So it comes back up, and the new disk is GONE. It doesn't show up in
    "format", running "devfsadm" doesn't bring it back. cfgadm -al
    shows the c3 controller but it is

    c3 scsi-bus connected unconfigured unknown

    The other scsi controller is configured and it's one device (a tape
    drive) shows. So I tried:

      cfgadm -c configure c3

    but that just caused a bunch of errors and warnings in the
    /var/adm/messages, like this:
    Nov 21 11:19:23 gec krtld: [ID 995402 kern.notice]
    /platform/sun4u/kernel/misc/sparcv9/sbd: undefined symbol
    'sbdp_portid_to_cpu_unit'
    Nov 21 11:19:23 gec krtld: [ID 995402 kern.notice]
    /platform/sun4u/kernel/misc/sparcv9/sbd: undefined symbol
    'plat_max_cmp_units_per_board'
    Nov 21 11:19:23 gec krtld: [ID 472681 kern.notice] WARNING: mod_load:
    cannot load module 'sbd'
    Nov 21 11:19:23 gec gptwo: [ID 450795 kern.warning] WARNING: cannot load sbd
    Nov 21 11:19:23 gec krtld: [ID 995402 kern.notice]
    /platform/sun4u/kernel/misc/sparcv9/sbd: undefined symbol
    'sbdp_portid_to_cpu_unit'

    No idea why it is trying "sdp" since this is supposed to use "mpt"

    prtdiag shows this:

    I/O PCI 9 A 8 66 66 1,0 ok
    scsi-pci1000,30.1000.10c0.8/disk+ LSI,1030
    I/O PCI 9 A 8 66 66 1,1 ok
    scsi-pci1000,30.1000.10c0.8 LSI,1030

    so Solaris does see the controller. I think maybe it sees it twice
    because it is a dual channel controller.

    It's a Storcase JBOD and their software (infomon) shows everything
    working normally.

    What do I have to kick to get this system to see the disk again?
    Preferably without having to do a probe-scsi-all manually at each boot.

    Thanks,

    David Mathog
    mathog@caltech.edu


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