Geometry for EasyRaid X6P
Geetings!
I was handed this system and told to get it to work. We do not have a support contract for either the Sun machine or any of the external hardware.
I have a EasyRaid X6P that I am trying to attached to a NetraT1running Solaris 8. Format sees the disk like this:
4. c7t0d0 <drive type unknown>
/<a href="mailto:pci@1f" target="_blank">pci@1f</a>,0/<a href="mailto:pci@1" target="_blank">pci@1</a>/<a href="mailto:pci@5" target="_blank">pci@5</a>/<a href="mailto:pci@8" target="_blank">pci@8</a>/<a href="mailto:pci@c" target="_blank">pci@c</a>/SUNW,<a href="mailto:isptwo@4" target="_blank">isptwo@4</a>/<a href="mailto:sd@0" target="_blank">sd@0</a>,0
When I try to select the device, it lists "AVAILABLE DRIVE TYPES", but none of them fit. There are two additional options. "Auto configure" says:
Mode sense page(3) reports nsect value as 128, adjusting it to -96
Auto configure failed
"Other" asks for the number of cylinders, etc. There is nothing on the EasyRaid box that indicates what the geometry is that is presented to the operating system. However, I tried to simply input the geometery from a single device in the hopes of getting a little farther. However, it fails with:
Enter number of data cylinders: 486344
'486344' is out of range.
I have asked some of the other members of our department and found out that this EesyRaid was on the machine once before. In /etc/vfstab I found:
#/dev/dsk/c7t0d0s2/dev/rdsk/c7t0d0s2/stage1 ufs3yes-
So I looked at the device node:
lrwxrwxrwx1 rootother 73 Dec 2 2004 /dev/rdsk/c7t0d0s2 -> ../../devices/<a href="mailto:pci@1f" target="_blank">pci@1f</a>,0/<a href="mailto:pci@1" target="_blank">pci@1</a>/<a href="mailto:pci@5" target="_blank">pci@5</a>/<a href="mailto:pci@8" target="_blank">pci@8</a>/<a href="mailto:pci@c" target="_blank">pci@c</a>/SUNW,<a href="mailto:isptwo@4" target="_blank">isptwo@4</a>/<a href="mailto:sd@0" target="_blank">sd@0</a>,0:c,raw
and then the messages file for the time the device node was created and found this:
Dec 2 17:25:54 nts-mgm-13 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]Vendor: easyRAIDSerial Num
ber:
Dec 2 17:25:54 nts-mgm-13 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]Sense Key: Not Ready
Dec 2 17:25:54 nts-mgm-13 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0x0
Dec 2 17:25:59 nts-mgm-13 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /<a href="mailto:pci@1f" target="_blank">pci@1f</a>,0/<a href="mailto:pci@1" target="_blank">pci@1</a>/<a href="mailto:pci@5" target="_blank">pci@5</a>/<a href="mailto:pci@8" target="_blank">pci@8</a>/<a href="mailto:pci@c" target="_blank">pci@c</a>/SUNW,<a href="mailto:isptwo@4" target="_blank">isptwo@4</a>/sd
@0,0 (sd91):
Dec 2 17:25:59 nts-mgm-13Error for Command: load/start/stop Error Level: Retryable
I do not find these entries in the current messages file, so apparently the EasyRaid is not being recognized completely correct. I also found out that this the EasyRaid is not connected directly by goes through a Netra E1 PCI Expanded. So, it is possible that the configuration of the Netra E1 is confusing the recognition of the EasyRaid. However, I am at a loss of where to go from here.
Any help would be greatly appreaciated.
