I expected that the Solaris installation would simply format the drive as
needed as part of the installation, similar to what Linux, Aix, Windows, >etc... do.
Used T5120,
I put in a fresh disk drive. show /SYS/HDD0/PRSNT says
that the drive is there, the green light is on, and yet > > {ok}
show-disks
does not show it, it shows only five entries (I am not in front of it
now so I cannot show them).
{ok} probe-scsi-all
makes the disk light blink but show-disks still does not show it, so
clearly I cannot install Solaris because there is no disk.
I thought, ok the brand new drive is broken. I found another T5120,
went to check it out, same thing. Its two drives light up but {ok}
show-disks never shows anything.
I must be doing some very basically wrong here because I figure it is
not likely that two different systems with different drives exhibit the
same show-disks behavior. I would like to get this going to give my
Ultra 5(!) running Sol 10 a break and also because with ILOM, I can start/stop it remotely.
I presume that
{ok} show-disks
supposed to show the scsi drives? It dawned on me that maybe it shows
only devices that have a bootable OS but that seems farfetched.
I went to a local liquidator who had a T5120 for sale and hooked up a
laptop to ILOM. When I booted it to {ok} and typed
show-disks
it also did not show anything for the two disks that were installed. >probe-scsi-all did not do anything either. I could not install a fresh >Solaris on it because it complained about some out of date firmware.
The Ultra5 does not have USB but we also have a SunFire V100 with two USBs in the back and Solaris 2.8 does support external USB drives although it is not clear if it has drivers. I found an inexpensive Plugable USB-SAS enclosure. I have always hadgood luck with Plugable devices so perhaps I'll get one.
The Ultra5 does not have USB but we also have a SunFire V100 with two
USBs in the back and Solaris 2.8 does support external USB drives
although it is not clear if it has drivers. I found an inexpensive
Plugable USB-SAS enclosure. I have always had good luck with Plugable
devices so perhaps I'll get one.
Oops, I realize that is a USB-SATA, not SAS enclosure. It seems that
there are no such animals out there.
Hi DoN,
It's a brand new, never used drive: SAS Seagate Savio 300Gb. IIUC you
are saying that it must be formatted by Solaris before Solaris can be installed on it. Seems a real "chicken-egg" problem or perhaps a way for Oracle to require users to purchase drives through them. When the installation fails (no disk found), it drops into a shell where I tried format but of course, there are no drives.
probe-scsi-all returns:
{0} ok probe-scsi-all
/pci@0/pci@0/pci@9/scsi@0
Waiting for AAC Controller to start: . . Started
AAC Kernel Version: 15583
/pci@0/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/pci@9/SUNW,qlc@0,1
QLogic QLE2462 Host Adapter Driver(SPARC): 1.24 11/15/06
Firmware version 4.00.26
Fibre Channel Link down
Possible causes: No cable, incorrect connection mode or data rate
/pci@0/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/pci@9/SUNW,qlc@0
QLogic QLE2462 Host Adapter Driver(SPARC): 1.24 11/15/06
Firmware version 4.00.26
Fibre Channel Link down
Possible causes: No cable, incorrect connection mode or data rate
/pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0
MPT Version 1.05, Firmware Version 1.22.00.00
/pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/storage@2
Unit 0 Removable Read Only device TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-T632ASR03
a) /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk{0} ok
b) /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/storage@2/disk
q) NO SELECTION
Enter Selection, q to quit: q
The Ultra5 does not have USB but we also have a SunFire V100 with two
USBs in the back and Solaris 2.8 does support external USB drives
although it is not clear if it has drivers. I found an inexpensive
Plugable USB-SAS enclosure. I have always had good luck with Plugable
devices so perhaps I'll get one.
I expected that the Solaris installation would simply format the drive
as needed as part of the installation, similar to what Linux, Aix,
Windows, etc... do. If none of this works, I'll risk upgrading the v100
from 2.8 to 2.10. I still will not have remote start/stop capability but
I'll have a faster 2.10.
Hi DoN,
It is interesting that you mention RAID. After the install fails and
I get the shell, I looked around the RAM directories and found /tmp/install_log.syslog. Dumping that, I saw
Aug 16 08:53:49 aac: [ID 477943 kern.info] NOTICE: aac driver
2.02.04-1, found card: Sun STK RAID INT(pci0x9005.285.108e.286) at
0xe00000
Searching on this, I found some Sun documents about the StorageTek Raid
hw. But these are references on how to add drives to a RAID on a system
that is already running. It seems to me that perhaps even before I
"boot cdrom", I need to somehow be able to format the drive using some
/SYS command so that when I "boot cdrom", the STK RAID driver can see
the drive. Or maybe there is a different iso disk that is booted first
in order to format drives.
Does this sound like I'm on the right track? I have a couple of the
documents that you referenced and I will hunt down the rest of them.
Thanks also for the pointer on opening the box and poking around. In
fact, I never bought the second T5120 that I looked at because it did
not boot with the included drives and it acted the same as my system,
i.e. show-disks did not show anything.
Thanks,
Paul
I am now two hours into an estimated five hour formatting session. More details as they come in!!
At this point, it is verifying. Is there any danger in stopping it atNo, you can interrupt, this will not harm anything.
this point? The formatting is done:
format> labelAs you can see above, this is only a read-test (Verfying media). You
Ready to label disk, continue? y
format> format
Ready to format. Formatting cannot be interrupted
and takes 228 minutes (estimated). Continue? y
Beginning format. The current time is Tue Aug 16 12:08:10 2016
Formatting...
99% complete (00:00:58 remaining) done
Verifying media...
pass 0 - pattern = 0xc6dec6de
5336/3/1875
It's not a big deal to wait, I have other things to do. If the estimateIf you're not in a hurry you can wait for it to finish. The important
it correct, I have another hour or so to wait.
Paul
Isn't it better not to use RAID ever with ZFS?
Hi DoN,
It is interesting that you mention RAID. After the install fails and I
get the shell, I looked around the RAM directories and found /tmp/install_log.syslog. Dumping that, I saw
Aug 16 08:53:49 aac: [ID 477943 kern.info] NOTICE: aac driver
2.02.04-1, found card: Sun STK RAID INT(pci0x9005.285.108e.286) at
0xe00000
Searching on this, I found some Sun documents about the StorageTek
Raid hw. But these are references on how to add drives to a RAID on a
system that is already running. It seems to me that perhaps even before
I "boot cdrom", I need to somehow be able to format the drive using some
/SYS command so that when I "boot cdrom", the STK RAID driver can see
the drive. Or maybe there is a different iso disk that is booted first
in order to format drives.
Does this sound like I'm on the right track? I have a couple of the
documents that you referenced and I will hunt down the rest of them.
Thanks also for the pointer on opening the box and poking around. In
fact, I never bought the second T5120 that I looked at because it did
not boot with the included drives and it acted the same as my system,
i.e. show-disks did not show anything.
I'm not sure how the RAID controller in the T5x20-series work, but on
older SPARC machines like the V440, you could list/create/delete RAIDs
only from Solaris via 'raidctl'.
Try to boot Solaris again via DVD, and do 'raidctl -l' - let's see if
you get any ouput.
On 2016-08-17, invalid <address@is.invalid> wrote:
Isn't it better not to use RAID ever with ZFS?
Well ... I *had* to use RAID with a StorEdge T3+ while I was
using it -- but I had it configured to provide one large partition with
a hot spare disk, and then used ZFS to partition it as I wanted to get
most of the benefits of ZFS.
But, yes, I prefer ZFS over hardware RAID.
And I'm not sure how easy it would be for the OP to convert his
system to non RAID. It only involves pulling the card, and running new cables from the drive bays to the controller on the system board -- but
those require a different length of specialized cable, which he might not have access to -- and tucking the longer cables into the necessary loops
to reach the needed system board controllers might block the airflow somewhat.
I've got the RAID controller on the X4150 configured to supply
all the drives as individual drives, so ZFS works as designed for the
moment. On that system (based on what I have read so far), apparently
the RAID card is needed to talk to SAS drives, and the absence of the
RAID card is needed to talk to SATA drives.
I formatted ZFS with the original long RAID cable plugged into the MB >controller socket. The cable is looped and I think the cover is resting
on the wires coming out of the plug. As for the airflow, the system is
not run 24/7 so that should not be a big issue. Does anyone know the
part number of the shorter cable? I hunted around but never found a part
I formatted ZFS with the original long RAID cable plugged into the MB controller socket. The cable is looped and I think the cover is resting
on the wires coming out of the plug. As for the airflow, the system is
not run 24/7 so that should not be a big issue. Does anyone know the
part number of the shorter cable?
I hunted around but never found a part number or anything equivalent. Does it have a 90 degree plug so that the wires does not stick up so high? I have only one drive so RAID would be
a little silly and the stuff that I have on the T5120 is easily
reloadable so it's not a big deal.
Thanks again to everyone who responded!
Paul
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