There are better experts than me on this list, but this smells like an issue with controller firmware to me (i.e. not responding to SCSI commands in the expected fashion, etc.)
Is the controller listed as supported on the illumos HCL? > On Mar 2, 2015, at 3:57 PM, J Marc Edwards via smartos-discuss > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1. I started the installation of SmartOS on the NEW C240 M4 that has the > NEW Cisco 12G SAS storage adapter. > 2. The SmartOS installation proceeded as I had expected from my previous > SmartOS installations. > 3. AFTER I had configured the Cisco C240 M4 12G storage adapter for JBOD > mode, SmartOS detected ALL 13 JBOD drives (1 SSD for ZLOG + 12 spinning > drivers) in the system. > 4. I indicated to the SmartOS install program all 13 of the drives that > I wanted to create zpools in. > 5. The data pools were created. > 6. After the disks were formatted and pools created, I could see all of > the disk’s LEDs really active, so I was pretty encouraged that the storage > adapter was working. > 7. The SmartOS installer proceeded to completion and then rebooted the > server. > 8. THIS is when I got the messages that are the WARNING messages about > the “Command failed to complete…Device is gone”. > 9. There were 13 of these messages corresponding to each of the 13 disk > drives in the server. > 10. The boot process appeared to have stalled, waiting for a LONG time > before actually returning to the login prompt. > 11. After I received the login prompt, I was able to log into SmartOS with > no problem. > > I’ve been searching the Internet for some clues here, but I need some help > from the community on this. > > Kind regards, Marc > > smartos-discuss | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/26679658-d7bb2457> | > Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com/><9019985_IMG_7340.jpg_2.jpeg> ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
