SUMMARY: Ultra Enterprise 3000 missing disks

From: McGee, Chris <CMMcGee_at_pella.com>
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 09:16:41 EDT
Thanks to Richard Pace, Jay Lessert, Matthew Stier, Ronald Loftin, all of
whom informed me that this is a well known issue. You need to turn off
auto-boot "setenv auto-boot? false" and reset the hardware or probe-scsi
will hang. (This didn't make a lot of sense to me since the OS is down
anyway, but it certainly proved to be true. :)
 
Tim Evans mentioned that he has dealt with Enterprise 3x00 and 4x00 boxes in
which not all the internal bays had SCSI connectors, and John McNab
mentioned that I might be lacking device files for some of the SCSI ID's.
 
Jay Lessert also pointed me to a tool called "scsiinfo" (
ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/scsiinfo/
<ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/scsiinfo/> ), which I have not looked at
yet.
 
Thanks to all the folks who told me how to get a scsi probe to run, I was
able to verify that the hardware knew all the disks were there. From there
it was almost certainly an OS issue, so I checked the device files, and sure
enough, those three SCSI ID's were missing device files.
 
Thanks for helping an HP gimp out (I'm used to turning the box on, whacking
the space bar a couple times, then typing "sea" =)
 
    --Chris
 
 
Received on Fri Jul 6 14:16:41 2001

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