Re: [storage-discuss] Identifying disk on multipath enabled system by Target number

2012-01-10 Thread James C. McPherson
): (and then other output too). James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss

Re: [storage-discuss] cfgadm, Solaris 10 and SAS multipathing...

2011-02-16 Thread James C. McPherson
and iostat -En). Have you tried # devfsadm -Cv or a reconfiguration reboot? James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [storage-discuss] How to blink drive light? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-12-03 Thread James C. McPherson
On 3/12/10 05:42 PM, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 10:17:18AM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: The distinguishing feature of the current J series JBODs (J4200, J4400 et al) is that they support SES diagnostic pagecode 0xa, Additional Element Status and set

Re: [storage-discuss] How to blink drive light? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-12-03 Thread James C. McPherson
On 3/12/10 11:11 PM, Markus Kovero wrote: # /usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmtopo -dV This will show you information such as this: .. Any known non-sun jbods that work with this? I have no idea, sorry. I don't have access to any. James -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [storage-discuss] How to blink drive light?

2010-12-02 Thread James C. McPherson
-Sun JBOD adheres to the above requirement, then it really should just work with FMA. James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [storage-discuss] LSI 9201-16i support

2010-11-22 Thread James C. McPherson
On 22/11/10 11:35 PM, George Helyar wrote: Is the LSI 9201-16i supported in OpenSolaris? LSI Part #: LSI00244 Can't say for sure, but the 8port version (9201-8i) certainly is, with the mpt_sas(7d) driver. I would expect that the 16i would be supported with mpt_sas(7d) also. James C

Re: [storage-discuss] How to detect disk failure?

2010-11-21 Thread James C. McPherson
clue. You should also have a look at the output from cfgadm -lav James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage

Re: [storage-discuss] What is the root for sestopo?

2010-11-20 Thread James C. McPherson
On 13/11/10 05:33 AM, Peter Taps wrote: James, Thank you for your help. The system I am working on has a SAS backplane. It has SCSI as well as SATA drives mixed. There are a total of about 10 disks. Although I don't have /dev/es folder, I do see /dev/scsi folder. There are two subfolders in it

Re: [storage-discuss] Persistent Bindings with SAS Controller

2010-07-28 Thread James C. McPherson
On 29/07/10 10:25 AM, Don wrote: I have an LSI 1068E SAS controller connected to 6 disk shelves across it's two channels. I'd like to create some sort of sane mapping between the actual disk location and the OpenSolaris cXtXdXsX number (as a sanity check when replacing a failed disk in my

Re: [storage-discuss] Seriously degraded SAS multipathing performance.

2010-07-01 Thread James C. McPherson
c5t5000C50014D65228d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c5t5000C50014D6C530d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c5t5000C50014D6E35Ed0 ONLINE 0 0 0 Regards, Marion -- James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [storage-discuss] LSI 9211-4i

2010-06-17 Thread James C. McPherson
could also pull in the sestopo utility, found in system/io/tests, and run that against your ses node. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss

Re: [storage-discuss] Port Multipliers

2010-05-25 Thread James C. McPherson
be a bug in the support ? James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss

Re: [storage-discuss] Port Multipliers

2010-05-25 Thread James C. McPherson
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:11 AM, James C. McPherson j...@opensolaris.org mailto:j...@opensolaris.org wrote: On 25/05/10 08:59 PM, Lord AhX wrote: Hello, I was hoping someone knew if PMP support in B125+ was removed. I am successfully using SIL3124/SIL3726 in B122

Re: [storage-discuss] Port Multipliers

2010-05-25 Thread James C. McPherson
, the chance to actually help you. o it hurts so stop doing that, and try something else. Also, where and how does it hurt? o it hurts James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage

Re: [storage-discuss] zpool UNAVAIL with mpt timeouts logged

2010-03-17 Thread James C. McPherson
mentioned in that document went into the OpenSolaris version several months before they were pushed into a patch for Solaris 10. I believe you are facing a different problem. The particular issue that is referred to in the HP and sunsolve docs is 6653330 mpt driver should tolerate .conf node James C

Re: [storage-discuss] LSI SAS 9211-8i working well on = b127?

2010-03-10 Thread James C. McPherson
/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/internal/sas9211-8i/index.html That uses the mpt_sas(7d) driver, which was integrated into build snv_118. It should work just fine for you. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [storage-discuss] [driver-discuss] LSI 9200-16E 6GB/s SAS HBA Driver is not available

2010-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
? This is because the card you have is not supported by the mpt_sas driver. The mpt_sas driver supports pci1000,72 devices only. Will opensolaris support LSI 9200-16E soon? No. James C. McPherson -- Senior Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [storage-discuss] [nfs-discuss] panic on b119 running vscan/c-icap/clamav

2010-02-11 Thread James C. McPherson
? Is there not much activity in trying to get VSCAN working as an acceptable AV option? I've forwarded your email (elided) to the responsible engineer for that CR. You can find this info from http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6877669 cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior

Re: [storage-discuss] E-sata hot plug not working

2010-02-03 Thread James C. McPherson
a newly attached drive. You could try running $ pfexec cfgadm -c configure cX where X is the controller number that you see for the external connections, revealed with $ pfexec cfgadm -lav man cfgadm for more information. cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer

Re: [storage-discuss] E-sata hot plug not working

2010-02-03 Thread James C. McPherson
/pci1458,b...@8:1 sata3/0connectedunconfigured unknownMod: ST380815AS FRev: 3.AAD SN: 9QZ4PZM5 ah, how about $ pfexec cfgadm -c configure sata3/0 The attachment point id (apid) in the leftmost column is what you pass as an arg to cfgadm. -- James C. McPherson

Re: [storage-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-06 Thread James C. McPherson
opportunity for OpenSolaris advocacy in this arena while the topic is hot. going away ??? What on earth makes FreeNAS people think that? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [storage-discuss] Disk locating in OpenSolaris/Solaris 10

2009-11-03 Thread James C. McPherson
that /lib/mpxio/stmsboot_util is *not* a utility that people are supposed to run by themselves, it is a private utility for the use of /usr/sbin/stmsboot. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [storage-discuss] how to enable MPxIO in OpenSolaris?

2009-10-29 Thread James C. McPherson
James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [storage-discuss] Disk locating in OpenSolaris/Solaris 10

2009-10-21 Thread James C. McPherson
/expd1 connectedconfigured unknown unavailable smp n /devices/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci1000,3...@0:scsi::smp/expd1 -- James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [storage-discuss] Disk locating in OpenSolaris/Solaris 10

2009-10-21 Thread James C. McPherson
='primary' The above info tells me that this disk under scsi_vhci will have 5000CCa00510A7CD in the 't' part of the name, that it's physically attached to my mpt0 instance, and that it's target 0 lun 0 on that controller. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun

Re: [storage-discuss] Disk locating in OpenSolaris/Solaris 10

2009-10-21 Thread James C. McPherson
...@g5000cca00510a7cc:a /p...@0,0/pci10de,3...@a/pci1000,3...@0/s...@0,0:a cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list

Re: [storage-discuss] Some help with hardware (motherboard)

2009-09-30 Thread James C. McPherson
/html/T/trawl.html James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [storage-discuss] Question about mixing sata and sas.

2009-09-21 Thread James C. McPherson
to replace it. Will replacing it with a SAS disk work in this case? Is it possible to mix SAS and SATA disks on the same controller? yes - as long as it's a SAS controller, so it's a good thing you've got a 1068E :) James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems

Re: [storage-discuss] J4000 multipathing with opensolaris

2009-09-08 Thread James C. McPherson
and Multipathing Guide at http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2009.06/ cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list

Re: [storage-discuss] Project proposal: Promise SuperTrak RAID HBA Driver

2009-07-10 Thread James C. McPherson
://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel

Re: [storage-discuss] PCIE SAS HBA, J4400 multipathing

2009-07-06 Thread James C. McPherson
the same problem, however - an ascii guid being returned by the device, rather than binary. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events

Re: [storage-discuss] PCIE SAS HBA, J4400 multipathing

2009-07-03 Thread James C. McPherson
On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:30:42 -0700 Marion Hakanson hakan...@ohsu.edu wrote: james.mcpher...@sun.com said: The first bug you mentioned 6851364 mpt driver is not configuring multipathing against SATA drives loaded on a (J4400). was closed for exactly the reason above - the disks were

Re: [storage-discuss] PCIE SAS HBA, J4400 multipathing

2009-07-02 Thread James C. McPherson
can solve easily via a mailing list. Best regards, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel

Re: [storage-discuss] PCIE SAS HBA, J4400 multipathing

2009-07-01 Thread James C. McPherson
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:46:36 -0700 Marion Hakanson hakan...@ohsu.edu wrote: I said: ... Anyway, I tried updating the HBA to 1.26.03.00 firmware, leaving the newer 6.26.00.00 BIOS in place, with no change in behavior (i.e. still no MPxIO enabled). Same was true after putting the 6.24.00.00

Re: [storage-discuss] Diskomizer released

2009-06-18 Thread James C. McPherson
/diskomizer_open_sourced Source code can be browsed here: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/test/stcnv/usr/src/tools/diskomizer/ source code and pre built packages for OpenSolaris can be downloaded from here: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/test/downloads/current/ James C. McPherson

Re: [storage-discuss] SES driver cannot be loaded in x86 serser

2009-05-31 Thread James C. McPherson
/devices/p...@9,60/LSILogic,s...@1:scsi::es/ses1 Assuming that your storage hardware is compliant with the requisite SES2 standard, you should see the enclosure show up from this point. cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http

Re: [storage-discuss] Serial numbers on hdds - how?

2009-05-13 Thread James C. McPherson
Driver properties: name='inquiry-serial-no' type=string items=1 dev=none value='S19FJ10PC45360' James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [storage-discuss] Sata port multipliers / other expansion options ?

2009-05-13 Thread James C. McPherson
On Wed, 13 May 2009 18:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Martin Gisch opensola...@mg77.net wrote: Thanks Will. Those look a little too big/noisy for my needs. Really just after a neat little box to run ~8 drives in, neatly/reliably connected to the server. Closest I've sound so far sound like they don't

Re: [storage-discuss] LSI SASX28 support?

2009-05-11 Thread James C. McPherson
On Tue, 12 May 2009 08:47:58 +1200 Nicholas Lee emptysa...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:49 PM, James C. McPherson james.mcpher...@sun.comwrote: Personally, I'd recommend that you get the expander to attach using sgen(7d), if you have that option with your software stack

Re: [storage-discuss] DDRdrive

2009-05-11 Thread James C. McPherson
with you to get started on this process. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel

Re: [storage-discuss] LSI SASX28 support?

2009-05-11 Thread James C. McPherson
are telling me, I can assume that a Supermicro 3U chassis with two LSI SASX28 and two LSI 1068E (in IT mode) should be workable with Solaris. Yes. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [storage-discuss] Onboard LSI 1068E for the X8DT3-LN4F

2009-05-10 Thread James C. McPherson
/QPI/5500/X8DT3-LN4F.cfmhttp://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DT3-LN4F.cfm It should work just fine with the mpt(7d) driver. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel

Re: [storage-discuss] LSI SASX28 support?

2009-05-04 Thread James C. McPherson
. The expander will show up in cfgadm output too, and if you're running NV then you could use the /usr/lib/scsi/sestopo utility to find out interesting things about your enclosure. Cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [storage-discuss] [zfs-discuss] Supermicro SAS/SATA controllers?

2009-04-13 Thread James C. McPherson
vendor I know of, I'm sure there are others). James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel

Re: [storage-discuss] LSI SAS-3800X FCODE support for OBP on SPARC?

2009-01-27 Thread James C. McPherson
-SAS connector http://www.siliconmemory.com.au/content/enhance/proavio_eb8ms.html I quite like these units and I'd happily get another one. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [storage-discuss] Megacli testsuite

2009-01-19 Thread James C. McPherson
whether this is a ON regression or a TS bug? Gday David, the megaraid team reckons you're likely hitting 6782527 Change RAID6/RAID60 test cases to use at least 4 disks for volume/span creating James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp

Re: [storage-discuss] [zfs-discuss] Desperate question about MPXIO with ZFS-iSCSI

2009-01-08 Thread James C. McPherson
/stmsboot -e If you manually edit /kernel/drv/fp.conf or /kernel/drv/fp.conf to change the mpxio-disable property, you *must* also run # /usr/sbin/stmsboot -u Please see stmsboot(1m) for more details. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http

Re: [storage-discuss] puzzle about stms.

2009-01-07 Thread James C. McPherson
/dev/rdsk/c3t3d0/dev/rdsk/c4t50E011B3EE80d0 What you *must* remember, however, is that if you have MPxIO paths (because MPxIO is enabled), then you are *not* able to access the old physical path. This is by design. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun

Re: [storage-discuss] puzzle about stms.

2009-01-07 Thread James C. McPherson
physical (old) paths to any disk which shows up (enumerated) under MPxIO. This is a design feature. What are you trying to achieve? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [storage-discuss] Problems with Seagate 1.5TB Drives

2008-12-27 Thread James C. McPherson
not getting in the way of you writing a label. I would not expect that cmdk would prevent it, but I don't know the insides of cmdk all that well. cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [storage-discuss] Problems with Seagate 1.5TB Drives

2008-12-27 Thread James C. McPherson
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:48:10 +1000 James C. McPherson james.mcpher...@sun.com wrote: On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:57:01 -0800 (PST) Michael McKnight michael_mcknigh...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi folks, A little more info. When I run iostat -En, the drive is reported correctly: # iostat -En

Re: [storage-discuss] Packaging questions

2008-10-01 Thread James C. McPherson
Developer's Guide is a good place to start: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0406 James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss

Re: [storage-discuss] Solaris 10 SAS multipathing support for J4400

2008-09-24 Thread James C. McPherson
this because I wrote the necessary changes myself :) SATA MPxIO, on the other hand, is not quite ready, though it is very close. I don't have an ETA for you on when this feature will be available, sorry. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com

Re: [storage-discuss] issues around MPxIO and sas

2008-09-04 Thread James C. McPherson
is enabled best regards, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [storage-discuss] fcinfo are not finding any HBAs on Opensolaris 2008.05 snv_86_rc3 X86

2008-08-24 Thread James C. McPherson
of the stack loaded. I recommend you make sure that you've got all of the SUNWfc* packages installed, along with SUNWqlc, then rebuild your boot archive and reboot. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [storage-discuss] Driver for LSI 8208ELP, mega_sas ?

2008-08-11 Thread James C. McPherson
James C. McPherson wrote: ... Hi Peter, I've received information about this from LSI: 1) The 8208ELP is a MegaSR (Sofware RAID) controller that does not currently support Solaris. 2) That card is sw raid only. There is no iop on that card that mega_sas talks to. What sort of machine are you

Re: [storage-discuss] Driver for LSI 8208ELP, mega_sas ?

2008-08-10 Thread James C. McPherson
' + 'pci1000,3002' + 'pci1000,59.4' + 'pci1000,59' + 'pciclass,01' + 'pciclass,0100' Hi Peter, yes, I would expect that the card to work with mega_sas. Which build of OpenSolaris are you running with this card? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun

Re: [storage-discuss] Quietest 6+ drive box for ZFS/rsync

2008-07-20 Thread James C. McPherson
C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [storage-discuss] Quietest 6+ drive box for ZFS/rsync

2008-07-20 Thread James C. McPherson
mike wrote: On 7/20/08, James C. McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know that there's a when rsync is finished run script Z sort of facility (though I reckon it would be handy, and as well as for ZFS recv), so I'd suggest just using zfs snapshots kicked off by cron at a period you

Re: [storage-discuss] MPxIO and LUN id mapping issue

2008-07-02 Thread James C. McPherson
should, however, be able to run stmsboot -L to see what the MPxIO to non-MPxIO device mapping is. You could even create your zpools with MPxIO disabled, and then turn on MPxIO afterwards. ZFS will import your pools and run with them just fine. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer

Re: [storage-discuss] LSAI SAS SATA card and MB comptability questions?

2008-06-29 Thread James C. McPherson
/enhance/e4-ml.html They do cables too. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [storage-discuss] scsi driver + moderate I/O == panic: kernel heap corruption detected

2008-06-28 Thread James C. McPherson
to provide the details. The output from mdb's ::findleaks dcmd will also be handy. Incidentally, you can use the glm driver in your 32bit environment too. In fact, we would prefer it. ncrs is old and crusty and is on the way out via EOF. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun

[storage-discuss] request opening of 3 PSARC cases

2008-06-18 Thread James C. McPherson
/community/arc/arc-faq/arc-publish-historical-checklist. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss

Re: [storage-discuss] SATA controller suggestion

2008-06-09 Thread James C. McPherson
kernel. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [storage-discuss] ZFS or MPXIO failure after importing new zpool

2008-06-05 Thread James C. McPherson
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, James C. McPherson wrote: Ethan Erchinger wrote: Hello, We have a backup strategy that involves mapping LUNs between a given pair of hosts, and copying data from one of the LUNs (src) and another LUN (dest). The src LUNs sit a SAN device

Re: [storage-discuss] ZFS or MPXIO failure after importing new zpool

2008-06-04 Thread James C. McPherson
convince your management that implementing a backup strategy based around an enterprise-class backup package such as NetBackup or Networker. You should also seriously consider getting a professional services organisation (such as Sun's) to come in and help you get your systems setup properly. James C

Re: [storage-discuss] Tape Multipath Code Review

2008-05-25 Thread James C. McPherson
making it possible to do MPxIO with tape devices. I can't find the PSARC materials associated with it at the moment, so you'll just have to read through the RFE links in the webrev for more detail. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com

Re: [storage-discuss] Sun Fire E6900s reconfigure boot EXETREMELY slow with Solaris 10 U5

2008-05-22 Thread James C. McPherson
. = That's why we've got libraries such as libdevinfo, for instance, to provide an interface that you can depend on. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [storage-discuss] [zfs-discuss] ZFS and fibre channel issues

2008-05-15 Thread James C. McPherson
please include the output from prtconf -v and zdb -l /dev/dsk/. for each of the luns attached to your targets on this controller. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [storage-discuss] [driver-discuss] MPxIO support problems on Solaris 10x86

2008-04-02 Thread James C. McPherson
enumerate your device(s). James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [storage-discuss] more fun in ZFS-land

2008-03-27 Thread James C. McPherson
is supplied about commands rather than output. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [storage-discuss] CIFS vs SAMBA for home NAS: Who is faster?

2008-03-10 Thread James C. McPherson
recommend going with the 2.4.4 version so you can get the benefit of GLDv3-ness. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss

Re: [storage-discuss] MPT, SAS, MPxIO and LUN info

2008-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
module. The other thing you need to remember is that when MPxIO is *enabled* for mpt-attached devices, then none of those devices show up in cfgadm output. (It is my group which delivered mpxio for mpt). James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http

Re: [storage-discuss] MPT, SAS, MPxIO and LUN info

2008-02-27 Thread James C. McPherson
believe you can just yank it. I don't find that to be a very satisfying solution though and I've got no idea whether it's actually supported. Much better to turn the machine off and then unplug the device. At least that way you know there's no IO! :-) best regards, James C. McPherson -- Senior

Re: [storage-discuss] S10 x86 + 2530 + MPxIO

2008-02-26 Thread James C. McPherson
as a patch. Rest assured that yes, it is a P1 bug and we are giving it the attention it most definitely deserves. In the meantime, if you desperately want MPxIO on your x86 system with more than 4Gb of ram and the PCI-E hba, you could consider downgrading to the -14 version. James C. McPherson

Re: [storage-discuss] MPT, SAS, MPxIO and LUN info

2008-02-26 Thread James C. McPherson
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:27:56 +1000 James C. McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:16:35 -0800 Hyon Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... A different LUN number can be assigned through LUN mapping for the same physical LU when mulitple target ports exist. The mpathadm could

Re: [storage-discuss] MPT, SAS, MPxIO and LUN info

2008-02-26 Thread James C. McPherson
much, or anybody else who wants to be able to get the info without having to learn any mdb-fu. It shouldn't be too hard to hack up a utility to retrieve this info though. (note that I'm not committing to do so!) cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun

Re: [storage-discuss] MPT, SAS, MPxIO and LUN info

2008-02-26 Thread James C. McPherson
in the cfgadm_fp(1M) manpage. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [storage-discuss] S10 x86 + 2530 + MPxIO

2008-02-25 Thread James C. McPherson
MPxIO with pci-e hbas and more than 4Gb of ram. cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss

Re: [storage-discuss] S10 x86 + 2530 + MPxIO

2008-02-21 Thread James C. McPherson
setup. If it doesn't, please tell me what's missing. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss

Re: [storage-discuss] S10 x86 + 2530 + MPxIO

2008-02-19 Thread James C. McPherson
I think) and a pointer to this thread in the archives. best regards, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list

Re: [storage-discuss] S10 x86 + 2530 + MPxIO

2008-02-18 Thread James C. McPherson
/SPARC with 2530 and it works (however there are other issues). Any idea how to get MPxIO with 2530 on x4150 on S10U4 to work? It really should be just a case of - add the relevant patches, - reboot - run stmsboot -e James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun

Re: [storage-discuss] S10 x86 + 2530 + MPxIO

2008-02-18 Thread James C. McPherson
that. Here I got -14 - maybe that's a problem? I don't think so. There was a problem with -10 if you had an mpt-attached DVD or tape drive, so we respun it and eventually ended up releasing the -14 rev. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http

Re: [storage-discuss] S10 x86 + 2530 + MPxIO

2008-02-18 Thread James C. McPherson
for them. hopefully the above change to the parent= bit will help here. Please let me know how it goes, and send me another prtpicl -v output when you've tried this latest. thanks, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [storage-discuss] Do you have a cool deployment of OpenSolaris storage technnologies?

2008-02-14 Thread James C. McPherson
Ross wrote: I'm evaluating OpenSolaris for what should be a very interesting deployment if it works. Does that count? It might if you gave some details. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [storage-discuss] [sparks-discuss] 2007/663 Winchester - idmap AD-only mode

2008-02-07 Thread James C. McPherson
Hi Julian, Julian Pullen wrote: See below. James C. McPherson wrote: Is this the compulsory mode of operation now? I noticed that since going from 77 to 81, I am no longer able to connect from my win-XP or win-Vista systems. The message I see is Feb 6 15:33:12 farnarkle idmap

Re: [storage-discuss] [sparks-discuss] 2007/663 Winchester - idmap AD-only mode

2008-02-07 Thread James C. McPherson
Nicolas Williams wrote: On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:41:47PM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: Nicolas Williams wrote: You don't have to do anything at all for idmap to be in AD-only mode. By default it only does ephemeral ID mapping (for SID-UID/GID mapping) and local SID mapping (for non

[storage-discuss] CIFS server workgroup mode (was Re: [sparks-discuss] 2007/663 Winchester - idmap AD-only mode)

2008-02-07 Thread James C. McPherson
farnarkle smbsrv: [ID 138215 kern.notice] NOTICE: smbd[DOPPIO\jmcp]: homes access denied Feb 8 09:37:15 farnarkle smbsrv: [ID 138215 kern.notice] NOTICE: smbd[DOPPIO\jmcp]: home access denied What should I be looking at to figure out what's going wrong? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel

Re: [storage-discuss] [sparks-discuss] 2007/663 Winchester - idmap AD-only mode

2008-02-07 Thread James C. McPherson
Alan M Wright wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: Alan M Wright wrote: Assuming the CIFS service is in Workgroup mode, the most likely reason for this is that jmcp is missing from either /etc/passwd or /var/smb/smbpasswd. If you have a jmcp user in /etc/passwd and pam_smb_passwd in /etc

Re: [storage-discuss] [sparks-discuss] 2007/663 Winchester - idmap AD-only mode

2008-02-07 Thread James C. McPherson
Alan M Wright wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: Alan M Wright wrote: ... Is DOPPIO the name of your client or the Solaris CIFS server? clients: DOPPIO GEDANKEN server:farnarkle Try mapping the share as farnarkle\jmcp Ok, now this is very interesting: I just tried to map

Re: [storage-discuss] CIFS server simplest

2008-01-08 Thread James C. McPherson
/to/your/gate/path \ bfu /path/to/bfu/archives The central consideration is that $GATEPATH/public/bin must exist and hold your onbld tools eg: GATEPATH=/scratch/onnv-gate \ ARCHIVEPATH=$GATEPATH \ $GATEPATH/public/bin/bfu /scratch/nightly/bfuarchives James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software

Re: [storage-discuss] CIFS server and password ageing - compatible?

2008-01-06 Thread James C. McPherson
andrewk9 wrote: OK, thanks. Are there any plans to backport Sun's CIFS server to Solaris 10? To the best of my knowledge, there are no plans to backport to Solaris 10. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [storage-discuss] CIFS server on Solaris 10?

2008-01-06 Thread James C. McPherson
button and make a particular build The Next Release is up to a combination of ON CTeam, Sun Marketing and a few VPs. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Re: [storage-discuss] How can I install the CIFS service to a Core Group Solaris 10 install?

2007-12-12 Thread James C. McPherson
, you'll need to run OpenSolaris or Solaris Nevada, build 77 or later. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage

Re: [storage-discuss] How can I install the CIFS service to a Core Group Solaris 10 install?

2007-12-12 Thread James C. McPherson
James C. McPherson wrote: ... the CIFS server and related technologies have not been backported to Solaris 10. Yet. Apologies all, I was too hasty in hitting 'send' - I don't see any material which indicates there is a backport of this service planned for Solaris 10. James C. McPherson

Re: [storage-discuss] How can I install the CIFS service to a Core Group Solaris 10 install?

2007-12-12 Thread James C. McPherson
Alan M Wright wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: ... the CIFS server and related technologies have not been backported to Solaris 10. Yet. Yet ... that's a good way to give a few people heartburn :-) There are no plans to backport CIFS because of the huge infrastructure changes required

Re: [storage-discuss] Low cost SAS and SCSI controllers?

2007-12-09 Thread James C. McPherson
correct. I would expect Solaris to detect and attach it using mpt(7d) without any problems. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage

Re: [storage-discuss] Low cost SAS and SCSI controllers?

2007-12-07 Thread James C. McPherson
with. You can get cards from LSI with their 1068e chip on them for not too much. Depends on your definition of low cost. The 1064 and 1068 series use the mpt driver in Solaris. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http

Re: [storage-discuss] OS command to send SCSI Stop unit command?

2007-12-05 Thread James C. McPherson
you want to send that command to your disk? regards, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss

Re: [storage-discuss] Unavailable state in SPC TPGS/ALUA

2007-11-28 Thread James C. McPherson
/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/scsi/adapters/scsi_vhci/fops is a good place to start. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

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