From peter at ashlyn.co.uk Wed May 2 08:14:17 2012 From: peter at ashlyn.co.uk (Peter Stokes) Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 13:14:17 +0100 Subject: Summary - SAS drive not seen by controller Message-ID: <4FA12519.60405@ashlyn.co.uk> Hi All Ok, many thanks for the replies a number who suggested using raidctl to check for volumes. This sort of was the issue, BUT not that straight forward as it turned out, so worth having it listed here for anyone else in the future. First a bit more background. I only have here a T2000, 1000 & V245, no X series available. It turns out the disks were RAID'd on a X4200 system originally before I bought them. I tried booting an older version of Sol 10 on the T2000 and got a MPT error during boot, but came up to single user ok. I then tried raidctl, it did not see even the controller even though it booted ok on the system fine and you could see other disks on the internal sas controller with format. I then booted a recent version (U9) and with the 146Gb disks in slots 0 & 1, Solaris crashed with MPT dereference error. I then removed the 146Gb disks, booted to single user, inserted the disks whilst running and ran raidctl -l, success, I now had volumes listed. I deleted all of them and eventually the disks started to appear in the listing as drives and also if I ran format. This was repeated for all the disks simply by leaving the system running and replacing disks and using raidctl to delete the created volumes. So, there you have it, a right royal waste of over half a day playing with various systems and O/S versions. A big thanks to all who replied, I know at least one other has had a similar issue. Peter Hi All Have a really weird problem. I just bought a batch (8 off) of used 146Gb 10k drives (SAS), all correct Sun p/n and in T2000 caddies. When I install them in either a T2000 or V245 I have here and issue a probe-scsi-all, none of them are seen BUT the issuing of the probe-scsi-all command does start them spinning up. If I replace with the old 73Gb disks, no problem. I cannot blieve they are all faulty. Anyone have any suggestions as to why and how to get them working in the systems? Thanks Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Stokes Tel: +44 (0)1636 627990 Mbl: +44 (0)7977 532320 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From dariusz.dolecki at gmail.com Wed May 2 10:59:06 2012 From: dariusz.dolecki at gmail.com (Dariusz Dolecki) Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 09:59:06 -0500 Subject: SUMMARY: Connecting a Sun T2000 to a Cyclades(now avocent) Terminal Server Message-ID: Hi, Sorry for being late with this summary. A Cisco "rollover" rj45 to rj45 cable works. And, this also works: You have to use an adapter that Avocent (formerly known as Cyclades) either sells you (part number ADB0039) or you can make your own: Cyclades Sun 1 ----------- 8 2 ----------- 7 3 ----------- 6 4 -----+----- 4 +----- 5 5 ----------- 1 6 ----------- 3 7 ----------- 2 Part number ADB0039 is available on Ebay for $9.99, the advantage of this part is that you can use your normal cat 5 ethernet cable to connect to the TS, the avocent part dongles from the Sun box. Thanks to all who responded. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From Tony.Huang at TonyHuang.COM Wed May 2 13:33:56 2012 From: Tony.Huang at TonyHuang.COM (Tony Huang) Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 10:33:56 -0700 Subject: SUMMARY: Max password length in Solaris 8 (local account) Message-ID: Hi, Thanks to all who have replied to my question. In summary (also verified with Oracle) Solaris 8 does not support password encryption that could store more than 8 characters in length for local accounts. :-( Thanks again!! --Tony Huang _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From robert.clift at navy.mil Tue May 15 14:42:48 2012 From: robert.clift at navy.mil (Clift, Tom CIV NSWCDD, K55) Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 14:42:48 -0400 Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 9 support Message-ID: Spencer Kantor sent the following link which had the information in needed. Thanks, http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-301321.pd f -----Original Message----- From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org [mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Clift, Tom CIV NSWCDD, K55 Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 2:30 PM To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org Subject: Solaris 9 support Does anyone have a link that shows Oracle's support (extended) for the various OS versions. I have a webpage that shows all the EOL and ESOL for hardware but nothing for software. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From toml at engr.orst.edu Fri May 18 14:21:28 2012 From: toml at engr.orst.edu (Tom Lieuallen) Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 11:21:28 -0700 Subject: SUMMARY: how to swap T5220's with hardware mirrored drives In-Reply-To: <4FAA8395.3060505@engr.orst.edu> References: <4FAA8395.3060505@engr.orst.edu> Message-ID: <4FB69328.9050109@engr.orst.edu> I had two replies. Steve Hastings & Chirs Hoogendyk. Unfortunately, I failed in my attempts. I was advised to test thoroughly by booting off either/both of the mirror drives and making sure things were fine before swapping. It was noted that the T5220's have LSI MegaRAID cards, but it's unclear where the configuration is stored: on idprom (doubt it greatly), in the raid card, or on the disks (or multiple locations). My testing was an utter failure. The only thing that worked was booting off the primary disk (with or without the secondary disk). I couldn't boot off the secondary disk either in its original location or by moving it to slot 0. It's been several days; I can't remember the error, but I believe it just couldn't find any boot code. I did not try to add the boot block to it; I just can't believe that's necessary with the mirroring done by the raid card (the OS sees only one disk device). I also couldn't move just disk0 to another machine and boot off it there. The only thing that worked was with the original disk0 in the original machine. In the end, I ended up installing the OS from scratch on my spare T5220 and only moving my extra 6x drives in the zfs pool to the replacement machines. The idprom was moved as well with zero negative effects, so I'm sure it has nothing to do with the mirror config. Thanks for the suggestions from Chris and Steve. I hope anyone else who attempts this has better success than I do. Tom Lieuallen Oregon State University On 5/9/12 7:47 AM, Tom Lieuallen wrote: > I have two T5220's. The first is 4x core and has all 8x drive bays > filled. The first two drives are hardware mirrored using raidctl. The > other 6x drives are in a zfs pool. > > The second T5220 has just two disks hardware mirrored. This machine has > 8x core and more memory. > > I'd like to pull the ID prom and drives from the first machine and put > in the 2nd machine. I'm not concerned with the zfs disks; I know > they'll just plain work. I'm concerned about the hardware mirrored > drives. The ID prom will need to move due to some licensed software. > > The question is where this hardware mirrored information is stored and > whether I'd mess things up with this move. > > thank you for any advice. I'll summarize > > Tom Lieuallen > Oregon State University > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers