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 > cmdk0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 > Model: ST31500341AS Revision: Serial No: 9VS Size: > 1500.30GB <1500295200768 bytes> Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No > Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 Illegal Request: 0 > > But notice how it is listed as cmdk0 rather than cXtXdX -- how do I get it > to register the device files for the drive? If I can get that part done, > maybe I can get a label written. Right now everything I try fails because > there is no device (ie /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0) to work with. Your device is attached with to a controller operating in legacy / P-ATA mode rather than to a controller operating in SATA mode. I don't recall whether you mentioned what motherboard or HBA you are attaching the drives with, but if you can set the attachment type in the BIOS to "AHCI" then the drive should show up using the cXtYdZ notation that we all know and love. The cXdZ notation is an artefact of how we do PATA support, and I sure hope that it's 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 _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
