First time Sun user & not "au fey" with Sun/Solaris products. Recently bought StorEdge D1000 unit on e-Bay & can't see array unit or drives thru HBA. Not sure if unit is faulty or a "dedicated" unit, so seeking help.Short synopsis is: 1. Hardware - Gigabyte GA-7VA-C ...

We have a T3 array (not a T3+) with 9*36GB disks configured as a 290GB RAID5 array:IDTYPEVENDORMODELREVISIONSERIAL -- -- -- - --u1ctrcontroller cardSLR-MI375-0084-02- 0210/011804020939u1d1disk drive SEAGATEST336704FSUN A7263CD0SNRQu1d2disk drive SEAGATEST336704FSUN A7263CD0SQL4u1d3disk drive ...

Hi all,It's possible that my ultra5 works with a LSI Logic scsi card based on 53C875/53C876 chip connected to D1000 or A1000 array? (without firmware up/downgrade)Thanks Roger

I have combined Volume Manager and QFS, SVM to mirror the disks and QFS for a file system. I have a testbed host with two controllers connected to two 10 slot arrays;Node Ac3t0d0 to c3t9d0c4t0d0 to c4t9d0I have mirrored target 0 on controller 3 to target 0 on controller 4 ( and so on through to ...

Hi all,Installed Veritas Enterprise Server 5.1I have an L25 with a Seagate LTO Ultrium drive installed.The L25 is in M4 modeIt's installed in a V880 running Solaris 9The L25 robot seems to be functioning properly. I can move a tape from one slot to another with no problems.I cannot, however, ...

We are gettting the following error when using the Sun Web Console to access a SE6130:Application Errorcom.iplanet.jato.NavigationException: Exception encountered during forwardRoot cause = [java.lang.OutOfMemoryError] Where do I go from here?Thanks for any ideas,Glen Gunselman ...

OK, we've got a SunFire V120 server with an X6541A PCI SCSI card installed. The card is connected to an A1000 RAID Array with a good quality HVD SCSI cable. The other port on the A1000 has a HVD terminator installed. There are eight 73GB drives in the array, and there are two internal drives ...

I want to go from a 0+1 raid made up of 10 9GB drives to a 0+1 raid made up of 10 18GB drives. I am using sds on solaris9 and my disks are in d1000s. My plan would be to break the mirror and remove one of the stripes made up of 9GB drives then put in the 18GB drives and remake the stripe. Then ...

First dont jump on me for mentioning a 4800 this is storage related.Solaris 8Brocade 3850(SUN Branded)SUN Samfs(4.2.8, running 5 months)EMC Clarion(Old existing and always seen in config)Infortend FC-SATA array(Newly added)I have added some FC-SATA drives to my 4800s. The process of adding ...

Hi.Anybody please help. I need to find out if Solaris 10 will take care of finding this external Hard Drive. I am using USB to connect IBM xSeries 335 Intel Xeon?Processor to Maxtor OneTouch II 300GB USB 2.0 connection and Installing Solaris 10. I need the Information ASAP. ...

We, at Rutgers University, are running SAMFS 4.1 software attached to Storedge 6320. However, our archiver is not running because of errors in the archiver.cmd file.This is the log message:warning Errors in archiver commands - no archiving will be done.When I ran "archiver.sh -lv" ...

Dear all, I recently picked up a 1020 fibre channel/scsi controller (1996) out of a bancruptcy, unfortunately without manual. It is now coming up with a 552E on its display. Since Doc.sun has no manuals available I ama asking you for assistance. Thanks

Today I was trying to boot ..and got following error.Fatal SCSI error script 8 illegal opertation Drive is not readyPlease advise.FromP

I have been searching SunSolve to locate information on the latest firmware revisions for the following:Seagate ST373307FHitichai DK32EJ72DK32EJ14Fujitsu MAP3735FAny ideas on how to find them?

Does anyone know ?Does E250 support seagate 300G SCSI hard drive?

Would like to get some advices about the following issue: My T3 disks' LEDs are green, but 9 disks except the first disk are blinking fast. There is no I/O activities on the T3 at all(It actually doesn't connect to any host). If I umount the vol on the T3, then LED blinking stopped. Not sure ...

Can I swap the disks from a 711 multpack into a D1000 and are there any gotcha's that peeps can think of?I have 2 e4500's, lets call them new and old, old has a d1000 and new has a couple of 711's, old is performing better that new so I need to get all the data on news 711 onto olds D1000 ...

I am trying to install the QFS for linux client on a Redhat 3 box, and I am trying to connect it to some QFS volumes i have on a clariion cx700. My QFS server is running on a solaris 9 bvox with no problems with solaris clients but I cannot get the linux client to work. I get several errors. ...

Just wonder when replace one of the A3500FC controller(Two controllers in the Controller module) and the battery Unit, Do I need to power off the controller module and disk arrays?Thanks for advice!!

helloive got a sunfire v240 with 2 36gb scsi disks in a software raid1the write performance is very poor (16mbit/s)...ive patched the box with patchpro, the original install was from solaris 8 2/02any suggestions?thanks in advance<div class="pre"><pre>bash-2.05$ ./Bonnie -s 512File ...

Hi all,Does anybody know, where to get MIB files for SUN storage devices (in particular, StorEdge 3510) ? My company have a few 3510, and as long as I'm is a developer and maintainer of "self-made" monitoring system for all network, power, storage & other devices and servers, I ...

I created a RAID5 array using Sun Volume Manager. a metastat returns the listing for the array as a metadevice -- d15.How would I create a filesystem for the metadevice that spans the whole array -- one that includes the parity stripe?

Hi,We have a Sun V480 running Solaris 8. We have installed 2 SG-XPCI2FC-QF2 fibercards. They are connected to an EVA3000 system. SFS newest version are also installed.Have configured the cards with the cfgadm command. But when i run a format command i get this output. Normally it will show ...

I need to implement a SAN, my problem is that I have no experience in this area and I am uncertain as to what software is required and what is optional (nice to have). To start off I am looking at connecting a V490 and two V240齭 to a MCData 4300 switch that in turn attaches to a 3510 FC array. ...

Hi guysI have a Sun Blade1000 and loads of Sun FC-AL disks so I decided to get me a StorEdge. I've located a cheap, working A5100 with a couple of HDDs already in it and I'm pretty sure I can fill it.I've read around here and from what I've read I assume I need a PCI or PCI-X card for the ...

Hi all there,What SCSI cable type do I need to connect the DAT 72 tape drives and the V440 servers? I haven't found any information in the whole sun webpage.Thanks in advance,Luis Rubio

Hello,What is the command on solaris 2.7 to get information on number of revolution per minute ..... on disks which are in A5200 Sun StorageThank youJerome

Hello,Is it possible to create a snapshot of a volume that is mounted read only ?My guess is that it isn't... Here is the scenario.I have a mail server who's primary /mail parition is a volume on our new iSCSI SAN. I have a backup server who mounts the same SAN volume read only. I want to ...

Hi,A drive I'm trying to reconfigure has the current configuration:PartTagFlagCylinders SizeBlocks 0rootwm0 - 221310.74GB(2214/0/0)22529664 1swapwu2214 - 26161.96GB(403/0/0)4100928 2backupwm0 - 1408668.35GB(14087/0/0) 143349312 3 unassignedwm00 (0/0/0) 0 4 unassignedwm00 (0/0/0) 0 5varwm2617 - ...

We made a 4-disk RAID 1+0 logical drive on a StorEdge 3310, labelled it, then newfs'd the entire drive (happens to be c2t0d0s2).FWIW, the partition table looks like:PartTagFlagCylinders SizeBlocks 0rootwm0 -32130.97MB(33/0/0)268224 1swapwu33 -65130.97MB(33/0/0)268224 2backupwu0 - ...

I want to connect StorEdge D1000 to Ultra 60, following is the SCSI host adapter and SCSI cable information.SCSI Host Adapter:PCI to dual differential UltraSCSI adapter, Model X6541AManufacturing part number: 375-0006Description: Dual Differential Ultra/Wide SCSI (UDWIS/P)(HVD)SCSI Cable:Option ...

Hi all,Please help me to find out: Does StoreEdge 3510 support IBM AIX v5.3 environment ? and where to get the information about it ?Thanks a lot,DucNg

We have a V880 running Solaris 8 with a number of FC HBA cards attached to a bunch of directly attached storage boxes (no multipathing). How do I determine the PCI slot, and channel, that a particular disk is attached to? For example, we have a disk:/dev/rdsk/c8t2d0s2with a physical path of: ...

Hi, could someone have a look at this output and give me an itea as to what is happening, the system give this error at bootup but seems to be operating fine, I had just changed the battery on the A1000 as it was failing, powered system off a couple of times to make sure that the disks would ...

Hi:I will re-install my E6500 server which has installed two storage A3500 and some multipack. I will manage the A3500 storages with raid manager 6.22 but I want to use disk suite for the multipacks.There are any restrictions in this kind of configuration? or some requirements?Thanks Marco ...

<b>I posted this in peripherals too, but I thought it might also fit here</b>I am running Solaris 9 on a V480. We have 18 IBM LTO2 drives connected to emulex LP9802 HBAs. The drives reside in a StorageTek SL8500 silo, and we communicate with them via ACSLS on a V240.The backup ...

We are migrating a working condition sun storedge A1000 from Ultra 1 (SCSI based system ) to SunFire 280R (PCI based system) with X6541A card. But after we attached the array to sunfire unit, the unit did not recognize the array. We tried boot -r, touch ./reconfigure (try to see if we can add ...

First, I'm new at this, so allow for my ignorance.Second, we are ARCHIVING data on StorEdge L3500s and sometime in the next 10 months intend to upgrade to L7000s. The issue: we have two L3500s on different LANs. ServerA has volumes labeled from AWR101 through AWR198 and is on 196.201.xxx.xxx. ...

Hi,We are running a TSM service attached to a Sun L100 tape library.Our wish is to upgrade the library's tape drives from LTO2 to LTO3.Our ideal solution would be to upgrade only half (3) of the tape units to LTO3, leaving the remaining drives on LTO2.Can this be done? TSM can handle the mixed ...

We have a V440 solaris 9, latest patch cluster and storedge traffic manager 4.4 with patches. 2 Sun QLC single channel controllers each see the same SAN disks via brocade switches. Why wont Traffic Manager create pseudo controller details in /dev/rdsk & /dev/dsk? I have checked fp.conf, ...

I recently started testing a v240 as a replacement for an older 280R . I swapped over the SCSI controller to the v240 and hooked up the A1000 from the 280R. On the v240, I loaded Raid Manager 6.22.1, installed the latest NVSRAM and firmware. All the diagnostics seem okay, and the drives work as ...

Hello everybody,I am going to buy and install one X6541A (375-0006, Dual Differential Ultra/Wide SCSI, Symbios SYM22802) on my Ultra 60 runs Solaris 9. Would you please tell me where I can down load its driver for Solaris 9?Many thanks.

HI,I have installed an L8 with EBU 7.2. No problems with backups or using the library except that I cannot use nsrjb to export a tape from the library :nsrjb -w -S <slot num> -P <mail slot num>This returns the error : "Jukebox indicated that there are no Import/Export ports ...

hi alld90 is a RAID 5 and created in multipack external storage device. it is working fine before i create zones after installed solaris 10. after i patched 10_RECOMMEND patch and i reboot the mechine and i saw "WARNING: md: d90 failed to open. open error on /dev/dsk/c1t5d0s0" when i ...

We have Solaris 10 with ssconsole and all relevant drivers and software installed. Using ssconsole I created three logical drives. format sees them and I can successfully repartition all three disks:--AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:0. c1t0d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424> /<a ...

We have an L8 Autoloader with the 320GB SDLT. When connected up to the system, it does not display the s/n. The S/N is on the physical unit but manager is requesting it display correctly on system so it does not need to be removed from cabinet when verifying for audits/inventorying/service. ...

I've installed 2 X6767A cards attached to my EMC Symm. I've installed SAN Foundation 4.4.6 and it's seeing multple paths to my volumes.I've noticed the devices are named with long names, using the WWPN? of the Symm FA as the target. A disk path looks like ...

All,I am looking into attaching an A5000 to a windows 2003 box for additional storage.Documentation seems to indicate the HBA card (A Sun StorEdge PCI FC-100 Host Adapter (Order Number X6729A)) is only available for windows nt 4.0.Do I need to use an SUN HBA card?Can someone shed some light as ...

Hello everybodyI connected a MultiPack (6 drives, no terminator) to the on-board SCSI port of a Ultra 60 with a 2-meter SCSI cable, it is working.But I am confused with:Must I use 0.8m cable for best performance, or must I use it in a cluster environment? On page 231 of Sun Ultra 60 Service ...

Can anyone point me to directions to completely wipe clean hard drives on a Netra 1125 running Sun OS 5.6.I would like to install Solaris 10, but I need to recover all the hard drive space first. Thanks.