On 9 apr 2010, at 14.17, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: ... > I recently went through an exercise very similar to this on an x4275. I > also tried to configure the HBA via the ILOM but couldn't find any way to do > it. ... Oh no, this is a BIOS system. The card is an autonomous entity that lives a life on it's own, and can barely be communicated with or supervised. :-(
You either have to set the card up under a hook in the BIOS boot dialog, or with a special proprietary software from the operating system that may or may not work with your installation. (Some (or all?) Areca cards have ethernet ports so that you can talk to the card directly. :-) You can do it with ILOM under the BIOS boot sequence. > I also thought about shutting down the system, but never did that. I > couldn't believe the sun support tech didn't know (and took days to figure > out) how to identify or configure the raid HBA card installed, and identify > the correct HBA configuration software. Well, maybe he wasn't used to systems like this, and thought that the system design would be a little coherent, integrated and sane? :-) ... > The first support guy I talked to said the > raid configuration utility for the HBA was raidctl, which seems to be built > into every system, but I don't think that's accurate. I am not aware of any > situation where that is useful; but who knows, it might be for you. raidctl is for LSI cards with LSI1020/1030/1064/1068 controllers only. /ragge _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
