Thanks Tim. That makes sense. In order to use all 16 disks on board i am planning to mirror slot0/1 (boot disks) from controller so only one slot shows up to Solaris and then use up 14 other disks for data, to make it 15 usable slots in all. Let me know if this is fine.
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Tim Cook <t...@cook.ms> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:29 PM, opensolaris_user hello < > opensolarisuser2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am running Opensolaris on a HP Proliant server using the driver from >> Solaris10. >> >> Here's the link about the driver: >> >> >> http://lanestechblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/installing-opensolaris-200811-on-server.html >> >> >> My question is for whatever reason the slot 7 never shows up either in the >> format output or in /etc/path_to_instance file. The disks were configured >> using the HP storage controller as individual disks so that it shows up as >> 'n' separate disks for Zpool. Is there any way to know why slot 7 is not >> detected. >> The controller detects the slot 7 fine. I saw this behavior on 2 HP boxes >> that we have. The node has 2 boxes of 8 disks each and Opensolaris can >> detect >> only 15 disks instead of 16. >> >> >> /etc/path_to_instance >> ================= >> >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1" 0 "pcie_pci" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0" 0 "cpqary3" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@1,0" 1 "sd" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@2,0" 2 "sd" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@3,0" 3 "sd" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@4,0" 4 "sd" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@5,0" 5 "sd" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@6,0" 6 "sd" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@8,0" 8 "sd" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@9,0" 9 "sd" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@a,0" 10 "sd" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@b,0" 11 "sd" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@c,0" 12 "sd" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@d,0" 13 "sd" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@e,0" 14 "sd" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@f,0" 15 "sd" >> "/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@5" 4 "pcie_pci" >> >> Format >> ====== >> >> AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: >> 0. c7t1d0 <DEFAULT cyl 17841 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63> >> /p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@1,0 >> 1. c7t2d0 <HP-LOGICAL VOLUME-2.50-136.70GB> >> /p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@2,0 >> 2. c7t3d0 <HP-LOGICAL VOLUME-2.50-136.70GB> >> /p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@3,0 >> 3. c7t4d0 <HP-LOGICAL VOLUME-2.50-136.70GB> >> /p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@4,0 >> 4. c7t5d0 <HP-LOGICAL VOLUME-2.50-136.70GB> >> /p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@5,0 >> 5. c7t6d0 <HP-LOGICAL VOLUME-2.50-136.70GB> >> /p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@6,0 >> 6. c7t8d0 <HP-LOGICAL VOLUME-2.50-136.70GB> >> /p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@8,0 >> 7. c7t9d0 <HP-LOGICAL VOLUME-2.50-136.70GB> >> /p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@9,0 >> 8. c7t10d0 <HP-LOGICAL VOLUME-2.50-136.70GB> >> /p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@a,0 >> 9. c7t11d0 <HP-LOGICAL VOLUME-2.50-136.70GB> >> /p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@b,0 >> 10. c7t12d0 <HP-LOGICAL VOLUME-2.50-136.70GB> >> /p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@c,0 >> 11. c7t13d0 <HP-LOGICAL VOLUME-2.50-136.70GB> >> /p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@d,0 >> 12. c7t14d0 <HP-LOGICAL VOLUME-2.50-136.70GB> >> /p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@e,0 >> 13. c7t15d0 <HP-LOGICAL VOLUME-2.50-136.70GB> >> /p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1/pci103c,3...@0/s...@f,0 >> >> >> prtconf >> ====== >> >> pci, instance #0 >> pci103c,330b (driver not attached) >> pci8086,3408, instance #0 >> pci103c,3245, instance #0 >> sd, instance #1 >> sd, instance #2 >> sd, instance #3 >> sd, instance #4 >> sd, instance #5 >> sd, instance #6 >> sd, instance #8 >> sd, instance #9 >> sd, instance #10 >> sd, instance #11 >> sd, instance #12 >> sd, instance #13 >> sd, instance #14 >> sd, instance #15 >> pci8086,3409 (driver not attached) >> >> Any assistance is highly appreciated, >> >> Thanks, >> Satya >> >> >> > > > ID7 is reserved for the SCSI host bus adapter by default. > > http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0800/scsi.pdf > > --Tim >
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