[Suns-at-Home] Sunblade 1000 doesn't detect FCAL disk!

[Andre van Eyssen]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Craig Dewick wrote:


> Note that the machine is running Solaris 9. It hasn't had a patch kit applied 
> for about 6 months, but I'd not expecting that to fix anything unless someone 
> has access to all the private stuff in SunSolve and knows of some 
> SB-1000-specific FCAL-related software package patches...

Well, I have a Blade 1000 (using it right now!) and everything required is 
installed as part of a normal Solaris install. An standard Solaris 10 
(06/06) install will give you driver support for most fibre channel cards, 
including Emulex cards and the like.

The first thing I'd do is try the spindle in another machine or try 
another spindle, and if that passes it'll be time to start working through 
all your hardware looking for disasters. If you're concerned about the 
software side, just boot off a recent Solaris CD in single user mode and 
see if you can see the disk. Don't forget to do a luxadm probe just to 
make sure.

On a cheery note for the list, I've got my new Sun Fire V880 up and 
kicking along - a very nice machine and one that I've wanted since I first 
used one. Vroom Vroom.



-- 
Andre van Eyssen.
                   "the only value you can add to a banana is a bruise"
                                                            -- McNealy.