Hi Andrew, Andrew Deason wrote: > I have an IBM x340 that I wish to run Solaris 10 on. It comes with a > ServeRAID 4L, so I'm trying to use the ips driver, which seems to be > working well for the most part. Thanks, Javen! > However, the drives I am seeing from Solaris both have the same device > id, which makes it impossible to use SVM on them. (metadb complains > that slices on the two different drives overlap, since it thinks they > are the same device.) Here's some iostat output: > > # iostat -Ei > sd0 Soft Errors: 2 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 > Vendor: IBM Product: ServerRAID Revision: V1.0 Device Id: > id1,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Size: 18.20GB <18200133120 bytes> > Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 > Illegal Request: 2 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 > sd1 Soft Errors: 4 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 > Vendor: IBM Product: ServerRAID Revision: V1.0 Device Id: > id1,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Size: 18.20GB <18200133120 bytes> > Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 > Illegal Request: 4 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 > > Is there anything the ips driver can do about this? I've looked around > for solutions to having a duplicate devid, but the only possible > solutions either involve using the impossible-to-find rwdevid tool, or > changing the driver. Or perhaps there's something I can do with IBM's > ServeRAID tools to affect this? I'm not entirely clear on how devids > are generated. > > By the way, is the ips driver open source? I haven't been able to find > the source anywhere.
What is this ips driver? In any case, this sounds like an instance of 4347117 Can't create stripe metadevice with more than 1 non-Sun disks for which you should use the workaround which I documented. Please see http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4347117 for more detail. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
