Well as to be expected the solution was an irritatingly simple oversight. I had tried to populate all slots with 9GB FCAL drives and did not succeed, this was done because we do not have 9 of the 36GB FCAL drives. What fixed the problem was placing one 36GB drive in the first slot, and placing one 36GB drive in the last slot. Thanks to my coworker for taking 30 minutes to figure out what I could not in a week. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Boykin Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 8:53 AM To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Subject: RE: T3+ troubles Hello again. Well, I am still in the same boat with this T3B of ours. I have since changed the controller with a known good one...not sure what to do now. Updated every patch I could on my E3500/Solaris 9. Help me! I'm drowning in this thing... -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Boykin Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 11:16 AM To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org' Subject: T3+ troubles Hello Guru's, The problem: we have a T3+ at our disposal in the lab. It was previously used in an unknown configuration/environment. We just want to reset it and configure anew. The problem we have is that it constantly reboots. We can "hit enter to cancel within 3 seconds" to stop the reboot and then are presented with a "T3B-EP>" prompt, which I understand the T3B portion to indicate the hostname. We've tried populating all drives with new drives. Populating partial drives. Typing "reset" at the T3B-EP> prompt. Setting up the mac address/hostname/ip in our jumpstart server and the subsequent settings within the T3B-EP> "set" variables. It's strange to me that the first banner after a new boot command reads "T3B Release...", etc and then the "T3B-1 Starting POST..." and then "T3B-EP Release..." after this it repeats ad nauseum. I noticed what appears to be a "Release" variance from the first banner and the the "T3B-EP" banner. Any ideas? Here is a snippet from a typical reboot cycle: (which I cancelled this time) T3B-EP>boot Starting... T3B Release 2.01.00 2002/03/22 18:35:03 (10.0.0.130) Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Initializing software... Found units: [u1-ctr] Default master is u1 Starting Heartbeats... Assigning Select IDs: u1(1) Initializing system drivers... Initializing XPT component... Initializing QLCF component... Initializing loop 1 ISP2200 ... firmware status = 3 Detected 10 FC-AL ports on loop 1 loop 1 TARGET_ID = 0x0 (ALPA = 0xef) Initializing loop 2 ISP2200 ... firmware status = 3 Detected 10 FC-AL ports on loop 2 loop 2 TARGET_ID = 0x0 (ALPA = 0xef) Initializing SVD services... Detected data cache size in system: 1GB Testing ISP2200... Passed Testing ECC mechanism... Passed Testing XOR functions and datapaths... Passed Cold Boot detected; destructive tests OK... Testing data cache memory... Passed Initializing Cache Memory... Starting timezone synchronization task... Initializing system DB structure... Initializing configuration... Initializing port configuration... T3B-1 Starting POST ......... POST end Starting... T3B-EP Release 2.00 2001/06/22 16:07:00 (10.0.0.130) Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Found units: [u1-ctr] auto boot is enabled hit the RETURN key within 3 seconds to cancel...Cancelled! _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Sep 15 12:05:43 2003
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