my 280R cannot see a new A100 connected to it

From: Samael_pan (samael_pan@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 25 2003 - 12:43:27 EDT


Sun Gurus:

I am setting up a 280R with an A1000. I installed Raid Manager 6.22 on the 280R running solaris 8. The first symptoms of failure show up when I run the (GUI) Raid Manager Software and it says it cannot find any Raid Modules. So I decided to do a reboot (halt + boot -r) and see the see what is happening at startup:

----------------- Startup Screen ----------

Boot device: /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/disk@0,0 File and args: -r

SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-15 64-bit

Copyright 1983-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

configuring IPv4 interfaces: eri0.

Hostname: db1

Configuring /dev and /devices

Configuring the /dev directory (compatibility devices)

Re-generating rdriver.conf file ...

Configuring the RAID devices

The system is coming up. Please wait.

checking ufs filesystems

/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s3: is clean.

Starting IPv4 routing daemon.

starting rpc services: rpcbind done.

Setting netmask of eri0 to 255.255.255.0

Setting default IPv4 interface for multicast: add net 224.0/4: gateway db1

syslog service starting.

Print services started.

Aug 22 14:31:10 db1 sendmail[663]: My unqualified host name (db1) unknown; sleeping for retry

There are no devices (controllers) in the system; nvutil terminated.

Array Monitor initiated

Aug 22 14:31:10 db1 /usr/lib/osa/bin/arraymon: No RAID devices found to check.

Aug 22 14:31:10 db1 /usr/lib/osa/bin/arraymon: No RAID devices found to check.

RDAC daemons initiated

Aug 22 14:31:10 db1 rdriver: ID[RAIDarray.rdaemon.1001] RDAC Resolution Daemon locked in memory

volume management starting.

Wnn6: Key License Server started....

Nihongo Multi Client Server (Wnn6 R2.34)

Finished Reading Files

Starting prngd

Starting SSH Deamon

------------ End Startup Screen ----------

I found these lines to be disturbing:

Array Monitor initiated

Aug 22 14:31:10 db1 /usr/lib/osa/bin/arraymon: No RAID devices found to check.

Aug 22 14:31:10 db1 /usr/lib/osa/bin/arraymon: No RAID devices found to check.

This made me to want to probe the scsi device from the ok prompt to see if the 280R could see the scsi device, so I did a halt on the machine and did the following commands

setenv auto-boot? false

reset all

All this to probe the SCSI:

{0} ok probe-scsi-all

/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4

LiD HA LUN --- Port WWN --- ----- Disk description -----

0 0 0 21000004cffe2f9a SEAGATE ST336607FSUN36G 0207

1 1 0 21000004cfd6d103 SEAGATE ST336607FSUN36G 0207

/pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1

/pci@8,700000/scsi@6

Target 6

Unit 0 Removable Read Only device TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M14011009

I know from the documentation that /pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1 is where I am supposed to have my A1000 connected to, plus physically I am connected to the scsi port (scsi logo on top) and I have a diff terminator on the A1000.

My reasoning tells me that I am not connecting between the 280R and A1000. Is this assumption correct? I have not done anything on the A100, we literally bought it new and took it out of the box and connected it to the 280R, do I need to do anything physical to the machine, like change the SCSI dial in the back? Do I have to run any commands to add Luns or do I have to modify the NVRAM?

thank you,

Peter Fellwock
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