CAn't see disks

I do not happen to know your experience level, but many people

have presumed that just because such disk drives are on a disk board,

that they are internal drives.

That is incorrect -- no disk drives are ever 'internal' to an Enterprise computer; all are external devices.

(... only the CDROM and any internal tape are internal SCSI devices, for those computers)

A disk board simply gets power and device target numbering when they're on a disk board.

The SCSI pathing is still external.

There must be a cable, out from an I/O board and into the HD68 connector on the face of the disk board.

Those drives are no different that if they were in a multipak.

No SCSI cable ?Then no functional drives.

Bring the system down to OBP (properly) and run probe-scsi-all.

The drives must be recognized at that hardware level before

you can have any hope of an OS manipulating them.

Search Docs.Sun.Com for the board, whose part number is 501-3113.

That will point you toward the Systems Manual for that line of computer systems.It's a 4mb PDF file.

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-3845-11

Alternatively, you can use the SSH to find your E4000, then select its documentation link:

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Servers/Midrange_Servers/ ultra_enterprise_4000/hardware/index.html

rukbat at 2007-7-6 14:46:59 >