From: Richard Paladino (paladino@iii.com)
Date: Mon Aug 16 2004 - 20:35:46 EDT
Managers,
First of all, many thanks to those of you who wrote me with suggestions on
how to deal with this problem (Raul and Tommy esp.). I got a lot of
valuable information on how to deal with devices under 5.1A.
Problem:
My problem was stated originally as a question on how to get 5.1A to create
device files for the new LVD disk I added to the system. The disk was added
to a new controller (!) and although the disk was seen at the firmware
level, I couldn't get the system to see it when booted and so I couldn't
proceed to label the disk, etc.
Solution:
As unsatisfying as this is, it turns out that the brand new 3X-KZPCA-AA LVD
controller was faulty. More info following...
No matter what I tried I could never get the device to be fully recognized
and even though the system once created the /dev/disk/dsk# files, I could
not use them. The best I could get was this:
# bcheckrc
<snip>
dsfmgr: NOTE: updating kernel basenames for system at /
scp kevm tty00 tty01 lp0 dmapi dsk0 dsk1 dsk2 dsk3 floppy0 cdrom0 tape0
dsfmgr: NOTE: creating device special files for system at /
+dsk4a +dsk4a +dsk4b +dsk4b +dsk4c +dsk4c +dsk4d +dsk4d +dsk4e +dsk4e
+dsk4f +dsk4f +dsk4g +dsk4g +dsk4h +dsk4h
# hwmgr show scsi -full -type disk
<snip>
HWID: DEVICEID HOSTNAME TYPE SUBTYPE OWNER PATH FILE VALID PATH
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
48: 6 disk none 0 1 (null)
WWID:0410002c:"SEAGATE ST318406LC 3FE1D3C3000072442RKH"
BUS TARGET LUN PATH STATE
---------------------------------
3 0 0 stale
# disklabel -z dsk4
disklabel: dsk4: No such file or directory
I still could not label the disk. However, someone suggested I check to see
if any errors were logged. Since I was only booting into single-user mode,
nothing was logged to /usr/adm/messages, but when I booted into multi-user
mode I found:
Aug 11 15:33:02 delphi vmunix: itpsa0 at pci0 slot 15
Aug 11 15:33:02 delphi vmunix: IntraServer ROM Version V2.0 (c)1998
Aug 11 15:33:02 delphi vmunix: contig_malloc: cannot find memory in saved list
Aug 11 15:33:02 delphi vmunix: ITPSA: can't allocate script memory
Aug 11 15:33:02 delphi vmunix: hba_dme_attach: (3/n/n) - hba 'itpsa' attach
fail
ed.
Aug 11 15:33:02 delphi vmunix: cam_logger: SCSI event packet
Aug 11 15:33:02 delphi vmunix: cam_logger: bus 3
Aug 11 15:33:02 delphi vmunix: ccfg_simattach()
Aug 11 15:33:02 delphi vmunix: SIM Attach Failed, sim_init() reported FAILURE -
Retry.
Aug 11 15:33:02 delphi vmunix: itpsa_attach_instance: Failure status
returned fr
om xpt_bus_register()
Aug 11 15:33:02 delphi vmunix: itpsa_confl1: itpsa0 attach failed
I Google'd this error and found reference to a problem with the controller
(3X-KZPCA-AA -- LVD SCSI adaptor)
This is not satisfying at all, but it turns out that the controller was
faulty. I replaced it and everything works perfectly.
Thanks everyone,
Richard
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