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
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