Re: D1000 woes - bit long....

From: Elias (nospam_at_charter.net)
Date: 07/24/04

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    Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:04:04 -0700

    Ste Kearney wrote:
    > I have an Ultra 60 here at home with a D1000 attached to a dual-diff Sun
    > SCSI card, and I'm experiencing a few problems.
    >
    > I have the D1000 set up (I think!) as two 6 bay packs each on it's own
    > controller on the SCSI board.
    >
    > I've filled it with a fair old hotch-potch of SCA disk I have lying around,
    > plus a few leeched cheaply off Ebay. The setup is really just to test
    > Veritas Volume Manager for a project at work, if I ever get that far!
    >
    > I like Disksuite anyway but........
    >
    > All the disks I have appear to work individually, tested in an Ultra 30 and
    > seen from OBP, but when in the D1000 I can never get them to all be seen at
    > once.
    >
    > This is my current disk list...
    >
    > AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
    > 0. c0t0d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
    > /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0
    > 1. c2t0d0 <COMPAQ-DCHS04Y-5858 cyl 5062 alt 2 hd 9 sec 184>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1/sd@0,0
    > 2. c2t1d0 <COMPAQ-ST34572WC-0892 cyl 5887 alt 2 hd 8 sec 178>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1/sd@1,0
    > 3. c2t2d0 <COMPAQ-DCHS04Y-5151 cyl 5062 alt 2 hd 9 sec 184>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1/sd@2,0
    > 4. c2t5d0 <IBM-DPSS-336950M-S96H cyl 14374 alt 2 hd 10 sec 502>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1/sd@5,0
    > 5. c3t8d0 <COMPAQ-DCHS04Y-5656 cyl 5062 alt 2 hd 9 sec 184>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1,1/sd@8,0
    > 6. c3t9d0 <COMPAQ-HD00431731-3208 cyl 6529 alt 2 hd 6 sec 214>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1,1/sd@9,0
    > 7. c3t11d0 <HP-4.26GBA80-DC1B-DC1B cyl 7640 alt 2 hd 5 sec 218>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1,1/sd@b,0
    > 8. c3t12d0 <SUN2.1G cyl 2733 alt 2 hd 19 sec 80>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1,1/sd@c,0
    > 9. c3t13d0 <IBM-DPSS-336950M-S96H cyl 14374 alt 2 hd 10 sec 502>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1,1/sd@d,0
    >
    > Only 10 disks, should be 13 inc the boot drive in the U60. I can move the
    > disks about, reboot -- -r and they may appear in another slot, and another
    > one will disappear. Too many permutations to try them all. This is a
    > previous effort....
    >
    > AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
    > 0. c0t0d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
    > /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0
    > 1. c2t0d0 <COMPAQ-DCHS04Y-5858 cyl 5062 alt 2 hd 9 sec 184>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1/sd@0,0
    > 2. c2t1d0 <COMPAQ-ST34572WC-0892 cyl 5887 alt 2 hd 8 sec 178>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1/sd@1,0
    > 3. c2t3d0 <COMPAQ-MAB3045SC-0814 cyl 6760 alt 2 hd 5 sec 248>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1/sd@3,0
    > 4. c2t4d0 <COMPAQ-DCHS04Y-5151 cyl 5062 alt 2 hd 9 sec 184>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1/sd@4,0
    > 5. c2t5d0 <IBM-DPSS-336950M-S96H cyl 14374 alt 2 hd 10 sec 502>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1/sd@5,0
    > 6. c3t8d0 <COMPAQ-DCHS04Y-5656 cyl 5062 alt 2 hd 9 sec 184>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1,1/sd@8,0
    > 7. c3t9d0 <COMPAQ-HD00431731-3208 cyl 6529 alt 2 hd 6 sec 214>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1,1/sd@9,0
    > 8. c3t11d0 <HP-4.26GBA80-DC1B-DC1B cyl 7640 alt 2 hd 5 sec 218>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1,1/sd@b,0
    > 9. c3t12d0 <SUN2.1G cyl 2733 alt 2 hd 19 sec 80>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1,1/sd@c,0
    > 10. c3t13d0 <IBM-DPSS-336950M-S96H cyl 14374 alt 2 hd 10 sec 502>
    > /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1,1/sd@d,0
    >
    > 11 disks this time....
    >
    > And c3t12d0 <SUN2.1G cyl 2733 alt 2 hd 19 sec 80> is a 4.3gb Sun disk
    > according to the casing label!!
    >
    > Anyway, I've tried stuff like deleting /dev/dsk/c2* /dev/dsk/c3* and the
    > rdsk equivs and reconfig booting but same end result.
    >
    > The only thing I haven't done is rebuild the Ultra 60, which is patched up
    > Sol 9 and also my jumpstart server so I'm reluctant to do that!
    >
    > Only other thing is I don't have the scsi chain actively terminated. There
    > are not other devices on them, and I relied on auto-term.
    >
    > I'm off to fiddle with the switches on the back again....
    >
    > Steve
    >

    You have to use terminators (HVD) on the D1000 and A1000.
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/data/805/805-2624/pdf/

    Elias

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