Re: Sun Fire 880 phantom disks

2010-03-02 Thread David Gwynne
id use asr-disable in ofw to disable the second fc hba for now. dlg On 02/03/2010, at 12:56 AM, Pete Vickers wrote: Hei, Upon booting either 4.6-RELEASE or 4.7-BETA on my SunFire 880 causes the kernel it to 'see' twice the correct number of physical disk. Further if I install the o/s

Sun Fire 880 phantom disks

2010-03-01 Thread Pete Vickers
Hei, Upon booting either 4.6-RELEASE or 4.7-BETA on my SunFire 880 causes the kernel it to 'see' twice the correct number of physical disk. Further if I install the o/s using bsd.rd on to sd0, then upon reboot the kernel can't find the root disk. However if I install on sd12 then booting etc is

Re: Sun Fire 880 phantom disks

2010-03-01 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:56:22PM +0100, Pete Vickers wrote: Hei, Upon booting either 4.6-RELEASE or 4.7-BETA on my SunFire 880 causes the kernel it to 'see' twice the correct number of physical disk. Further if I install the o/s using bsd.rd on to sd0, then upon reboot the kernel can't

Re: Sun Fire 880 phantom disks

2010-03-01 Thread philippe aubry
Hello, In the openfirmware env you can save only one device to boot if I remember correctly. If you want to have access to openfirmware you must set the var autoboot or something like that to NO or check the combination of key keyboard to sun web site. A printenv return all vars for your

Re: Sun Fire 880 phantom disks

2010-03-01 Thread Pete Vickers
Hi, The 880 is stock from Sun. I've done no hardware plumbing on it. According to http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806-7338-10/6jg7hm79b?a=view You can use multipathing software to switch I/O operations from one I/O controller to another to prepare for DR operations. With a combination of DR

Re: Sun Fire 880 phantom disks

2010-03-01 Thread Pete Vickers
Hi, Just FYI: {2} ok setenv boot-device disk0 disk1 boot-device = disk0 disk1 this boots disk0 or fails over to disk1. /Pete On 1. mars 2010, at 20.14, philippe aubry wrote: In the openfirmware env you can save only one device to boot if I remember correctly.

Re: Sun Fire 880 phantom disks

2010-03-01 Thread David Gwynne
your 880 has two internal fibre loops. you see teh disks once on the first loop, and again on the second loop. i am slowly working on finishing mpath(4), which will let you see your disks once no matter how many paths you have to them. if someone could email me some spare time so i can finish

Re: Sun Fire 880 phantom disks

2010-03-01 Thread bofh
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:28 PM, David Gwynne l...@animata.net wrote: your 880 has two internal fibre loops. you see teh disks once on the first loop, and again on the second loop. i am slowly working on finishing mpath(4), which will let you see your disks once no matter how many paths you

Re: Sun Fire 880 phantom disks

2010-03-01 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:44 PM, bofh goodb...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:28 PM, David Gwynne l...@animata.net wrote: your 880 has two internal fibre loops. you see teh disks once on the first loop, and again on the second loop. i am slowly working on finishing mpath(4), which

Re: Sun Fire 880 phantom disks

2010-03-01 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:58:31PM +0100, Pete Vickers wrote: Hi, The 880 is stock from Sun. I've done no hardware plumbing on it. According to http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806-7338-10/6jg7hm79b?a=view You can use multipathing software to switch I/O operations from one I/O

Re: Sun Fire 880 phantom disks

2010-03-01 Thread mehma sarja
That's spare change. If you change the 'm' to a 'r', then you can have mine. Mehma === On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Kenneth R Westerback kwesterb...@rogers.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:58:31PM +0100, Pete Vickers wrote: Hi, The 880 is stock from Sun. I've done no hardware

Re: Sun Fire 880 phantom disks

2010-03-01 Thread phil
Hi, Sorry I'm wrong for setting device boot in openfirmrware, I have checked on old power pc, you can set more than one boot disk. On my system I can set 4 bootable devices no more but on your sun it probably different. If OpenBSD as the begining of multi-path support you are ok to install