Hi All.I'm seeking help on attaching an A5000 to an E3500. I have it all connected up, but the E3500 does not recognize does not show any sign of recognizing the A5000 or it's disks. In particular, when I run "probe-fcal-all", all that is returned is information about it's own ...

Hi! Im trying to replace the disk drive firmware on some SUN Seagate ST318203FC drives to a non SUN firmware. It appears to be impossible. Does anyone know if the SUN firmware is "locked" in any way, so it is impossible to replace?

Does anyone know of a reliable Sun hardware reseller who would carry Sun 300gb Fiber channel disk.

I am at my wit's end with this problem.Our company just completed an upgrade in that we added an extra 3310 to 2 database servers. They are both v480s with StorEdge 3310s connected to a SCSI-3 controller (the one with the qus). The operating system is Solaris 8.Here's the problem: We added an ...

Hi,We now have two SINGLE L20 Tape Libraries.Is it possible to daisy chain or interconnect them (to effectively make them into a L40) through a Library controller card or do they HAVE to be two individual devices?Thank you

I have 3 unsed disks on my SUN and want to combine them into one mount point. Is it possible to select all 3 when I "format" them. Thanks in advance.

We've recently purchased a new 3510 for use in a VCS cluster for our staging environment to drill configuration changes before applying them to our production system.I've taken 2 new 140gb drives and placed them in the 3510 to practice creating LDs, LVs, partitions and mapping them to the ...

We've been having a fair amount of Seagate drive failures in our Sun systems lately. We are trying to find out a way to get a manufacture date so that we can proactivly replace our drives that have over 5 years of service. Is there a way given a drive's serial number and model number that I ...

We have a Sun Ultra 20 running Solaris 10 x86 with a QLogic 2340 HBA in it that's attached to a QLogic SANbox switch with a number of JBOD drives on the far side. We can't seem to see the drives using the standard commands. Here's what we've done/seen:-) We've done a reconfigure reboot ...

Hi,First time using this forum so hope someone can help me...I've inherited a D240 which currently has 2 hard drives, a dvd drive and a tape drive.I need to change this so it holds 4 hard drives only.Looking at the Sun docs this does'nt look too difficult.Are there any issues with changing ...

I was expanding a Sun Storedge A1000 raid from 9 drives to 11 drives. After that, I wanted to create one more lun, but end up rm not able to scan the module.I think this should be caused by minimum raid 5 requires 3 drives, while there are only 2 drives new added. I can see the raid ...

Does anyone know if the Storedge 6130 is supported on thethe V890? I looked at the V890 and under storage it does notshow it....Am I missing something?

Hello!I recently inherited system administration duties for a SUN v880 box. The system has 6 physical hard disks.. In doing some basic maintenance, I found it's configured for either mirroring or raid5. I ran the metastat and metadb commands, and many of the mirrors are showing they are in ...

How can I delete all the LUN and reinitialize a Sun Storedtge A1000 array? The one I have has failed module. healthck -a give me failed module info.Raid Manager show that raid controller is dead, so I can not use raid manager to delete it. The controller fault light is not on. so it seems the ...

I have a Solaris 8 System that has a Sun A1000 attached to it. Every thing I read says to use the RAID manager to mange it. Because it was already installed before I came on the scene, I don't know any specifics. This is a remote system therefore using the RAID manager 6 GUI isn't an option. ...

HiHow many hot-spares can be configured for SE 3510?

I have found configuration with V440 and StorEdge 3120 SCSI SMALL so my question is, can StorEdge 3120 be used as external storage for V440 since it is not in list of external disks for V440 on official sun page<a href=" http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v440" ...

I use Exabyte autoloader and Netbackup server on Solaris 9 sparc station. When booting system, got following error information:/<a href="mailto:pci&#64;le" target="_blank">pci@le</a>, 60000/LSILogic, <a href="mailto:scsi&#64;4" ...

I'm installing a new 3310 on a new V240 server, usingtwo dual Ultra320 SCSI controllers and vxvm 4.1I've created two luns, one per logical disk. These LUNs are available in format and I can newfs slice 0.Problem: I've tried vxdctl init, vxdctl enable, vxdisk scandisks but vxvm 4.1 still ...

Hi Not sure if this is the right forum for this...I'm having some difficulty getting Availabilty Suite (3.2) to mirror my Ingres DBMS transaction log file from our prod (4800) to DR (V880) server.All other volumes are being mirrored fine - when I try to setup the transaction log file it ...

Sola9 + Oracle 9 + V490 + 3* 3510FC each with 10 disk. We put oracle to raid. One raid dedicated to oracle database, one other to oracle redo log. In case of our application, if we switch oracle redo log form 3510 to ramdisk (tmp) we got 5 times faster operation. But if we switch back to raid ...

We had a disk go bad this weekend. Veritas recovered using the spare in the DG. However it looks like this is a hard error and the disk shows failed on the FP of the Array. My concern is that when i do a luxadm remove_device Name,f2 it will either hang or fail to remove the disk. While looking ...

Hello,I am new to tapes and libraries, very familiar with SAN however.I am using a Sun OEM of QLogic 2342 HBA. Since there is no config file and no BIOS to boot into I am unable to configure the library.When I run cfgadm I see the library and tapes but when I scan for the library using ...

When install SCSI card Ultra320 driver on Solaris 9 Sparc station, get following error: devfsadm: driver failed to attach: itmptWarning: Driver (itmpt) successfully added to system but failed to attachdevfsadm: driver failed to attach: itipWarning: Driver (itip) successfully added to system but ...

Hello,What is the mode of this Sun optical cable : (X9733A) 5M LC to LC FC Optical Cable?I use this cable to connect a SF V890 server to a SE3510.I want to move the storage far from the server in another room (about 200m). To do this I need to order a new 200m LC to LC optical cable (not ...

I'm using the stock qlc driver (Solaris 10/x86, latest HBA patches) and it's working fine with Qlogic 2342 HBAs.I'm not using the qlogic driver because scsi_vhci doesn't support it for multipathing, which is what I require. Using the qlc driver gives me multipathing.Are there any caveats ...

I'm a "newbie" at upgrading existing sun servers. I have a V240 w/ two 36GB drives.I have two additional drives that I want to install. What do I need to do this?Also, I have some user directories that I would like to move off of those drives, and onto the new ones and then expand ...

If the cache is disabled due to battery refresh cycle what is the impact on performance? Extreme slow down?

I would want to know if Sun StorEdge Availability Suite is suppored on the Solaris 10 environment. In case which this ptoduct not supported, Is there a plan for this?ThanksAntonis

trying to add a 200 gb ide disk - Maxtor 6L200P0 -into a ultra 5 is this possible ? and if yes, how to do it ?-at console promptprobe-ide shows us the disk as Maxtor 6L200P0.after booting Sol 9 from CDformat shows only 800 MB or 36 GB (with jumper cylinder limitation)running format (within ...

I recently installed an SG-XPCI2SCSI-LM320 (LSI designeddual channel ultra320 card) attached to a single disk(for testing) into our V880. (Solaris 8, fully patched). After turning the system back on and doing:ok> probe-scsi-all(saw it)ok> boot.../usr/sbin/devfsadmformat (see the ...

Hi, I've recently purchased an Ultra 5 with comes with a ST320410A. Supposedly, I should be able to recognise the 20Gb, but only see 7.87 Gb on Solaris 8:(output of format, verify)Volume name = <>ascii name = <ST320410A cyl 16381 alt 2 hd 16 sec 63>pcyl= 16383ncyl= ...

Hi,I have a HP SureStore DAT24 connected on a Solaris 8 box, i am trying to backup using ufsdump. Its working fine. But when i try to append some more stuff to the same tape its doesn't work, i am using the below command for backup,# ufsdump 0bf 64k /dev/rmt/0cn /export/home/rajAlso any ideas ...

I have the following output from metadb -i:flagsfirst blkblock countau 16 8192/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7au 82088192/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7au 164008192/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7ap luo16 8192/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7ap luo82088192/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7ap luo164008192/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7It should have been:flagsfirst blkblock counta m p ...

I have a failed Stoedge A1000 moduled. After replacing the controller, the module can be recognized, but only partion of the drives are recognized, 2-0, 2-1, 2-2, 2:3, 2-4. 7 drives did not listed in unassigned group at all.The controller firmware level is 2.05.02.11. Will upgrade firmware ...

Hi allI m trying to install new dual ultra320 scsi controller on Sun Fire c20z Server. But there is an error message ERROR: EXPANSION ROM NOT INITALIZEDPCI MASS STORAGE CONTROLLER IN SLOT 02 BUS 03 DEVICE 01 FUNCTION 0.0Pls help me to fix this Problem

We have a SUN E3500 with 3 fc-all disk drives. The disks configuration is : 1 boot disk and 2 mirrored disk . One of the mirrored disks fail and I need to change it. My actual disks are ST136403FC / PN 9L7004-022. Place help to make a good choise to buy a disk to replace the bad drive. I'm new ...

I have an L25 jukebox connected to a V880 server running Solaris 9 and Enterprise Backup Software 7.2. When I configured the device,I set the media type to LTO Ultrium 2, thinking that this would allow me to use both LTO 1 and LTO 2 tapes. The LTO 1 tapes work fine, however, just recently, I ...

Hi,I am facing problem with Sun StoragEdge 3510FC with 146x12 and 2 arrays of RAID -5.Problem Descrp: After upgrading Firmware from 3.27r to 413c. the HDD LEDs are blinking continuously but this problem is started after upgrading the New Firmware.Please let me know if anyone knows the ...

Hi,I have veritas installed on my sun box. I can find out the inode utilization of a ufs file-system using /usr/bin/df -F ufs -o i <File-system>. But is there a command to find out the inode utilization of a vxfs file-system ?Thnx,Jaffar

Hello,does anybody used any of the se3000 family storage underred hat linux , model 3310 or 3320 or 3510 ?There are any documents around for the setup or any howtos ?Any info apreciated .Thanks,Patrizio

Guys, I have a 3310 storage array that i am trying to configure through the serial port. All the 12* 146Gb drives show up nice and new.The 3310 is a Raid array with one controller. I am having a few issues and being new to these things i need a little help.First the drives wont show up in ...

Hello All,Any procedure out there to make an EMI labled disk bigger? I have a lun on a storage array that I need to make bigger. I've seen and done the procedure on SMI disks, but haven't been able to find a procedure for EMI labled disks.Any help is apprecaited.RK ...

Dear All,Yesterday I was given a Storage Array and I have no idea what it is.It is Grey with 7 HDD M2949ESP Drives (9 GB Fujitsu HDD). I have connected to my Solaris 9 box and it is showing lots of 2 GB drives. Can anyone tell me how I can identify the the unit and reconfigure the drive to be 7 ...

Hi,I have two A1000 module attached to Sun Fire 280 R with X6541A through both channels. Here is raidutil info for (c3t4d0 and c4t8d0)# raidutil -c c3t4d0 -iLUNs found on c3t4d0. LUN 0RAID 3381620 MBVendor ID Symbios ProductID StorEDGE A1000 Product Revision 0301Boot Level03.01.02.33Boot Level ...

Hello,What is the disk configuration for an A1000. Is it possible to mix disk drive sizes? For example, I have a 12 slot A1000 filled with 9gig drives, with 4 slots open. Can i add 4 18 gig drives in these empty slots?

Hello *!First of all: thank you for taking the time.The problem: trying to install solaris 10 on a Enterprise 220R with a D1000 Storage Array attached. The configuration, as seen in OB, looks like this:/<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1f" target="_blank">pci@1f</a>,4000/<a ...

Hi, I am trying to get a A5000 to be recognized in solaris10.I have a e450 with a x6782a HBA.<a href="mailto:&#91;root&#64;stimpy" target="_blank">[root@stimpy</a> ~]# luxadm probeNo Network Array enclosures found in /dev/es No FC devices found.Yet..>show-devs ...

How do I go about formatting disks on a A3510FC? I've blown away the LUN's and done a reconfigure reboot on the attached v440 server.I was expecting that the disks on the storage device would show once I went into format but alas no. Only the internal disks on the server show.The output of ...

Hi,I didn't see the A1000 in the external storage list of the sunfire V890 datasheet?I have been requested to connect both, are they compatibles?Thanks in adavance and regards,Luis