[OpenIndiana-discuss] recognizing disks

[Mike La Spina]

Hi Adam,

Possibly the LSI controller was not matched to a driver. Check the
controller model and verify it is on the HCL.

Run: 

pfexec prtconf | grep driver 

to observer any devices that are not bound to a driver.


http://illumos.org/hcl/

Typically I have found that the some RAID mode firmware within LSI cards
and other vendors is not always compatible or matched to a driver.
For example I have an IBM (LSI 1068) branded adaptor. It works fine when
I load the Initiator/Target mode firmware image but not when it's
running the RAID firmware image.

Regards,
Mike

http://blog.laspina.ca/ 


-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Gold [mailto:awg1 at gmx.com] 
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 9:28 AM
To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] recognizing disks

Hi there.  I'm a linux user and have recently decided to switch to
OpenIndiana using a x86_64 server.  Somewhat embarrassingly I'm seem to
be falling at one of the early hurdles.  My server has 1 SSD where the
O/S has been successfully installed and 4 X 3TB hard drives managed by
an LSI RAID controller.  I have configured the hard drives as JBOD so I
can use ZFS with all its capabilities.

Having booted up for the first time I ran 'format -e' but the 4 hard
drives were not detected.  Likewise when using 'cfgadm -alv' and
'devfsadm' + 'format' there was no sign of any unconfigured drives.
Just to be sure there wasn't any legacy data/meta-data I booted to a
rescue disk and erased the GPT labels at the beginning and end of the
3TB disks using 'dd'.  Again no luck.

These drives have always showed up automatically under linux so I'm
wondering if I'm making some very obvious starting error with the new
O/S, perhaps to do with labelling (although now there really are no
labels) or something.  I'm posting in the hope that this may be quickly
apparent to veteran users (and apologies for the relatively trivial
level of the inquiry).  Thanks in advance for any responses.
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