Adding Cheetah 18Gb Drive(s) to V240

From: John Bossert (jbossert_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/24/04

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    Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:15:27 -0800

    I bought my V240 with a single 36Gb drive (minimal) and want to populate
    the four bays with 18Gb Seagate Cheetahs (ST318203LC's) but I'm
    experiencing the following:

    With just the 36Gb in bay 0, all is ok.

    If I add an 18Gb drive to bay 1, LOM announces the insertion of the
    drive as HDD1, probe-scsi-all sees the drive, but format and cfgadm
    don't see it.

    If I add an 18Gb drive in bay 2, the green light comes on and stays on.
      LOM announces the insertion of the drive as HDD2, probe-scsi-all sees
    it, format/cfgadm don't.

    If I only have an 18Gb drive in bay 1, booting from cdrom, LOM and
    probe-scsi-all see it, but the boot loader claims that it's powered off...

    Anybody know what's going on here? I eventually want to put two 18Gb
    drives in here (mirrored) and place my storage externally. 36Gb seems a
    bit excessive for a boot disk...

    Thanks,
    jbossert <at> unifiedsignal <dot> com

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