So I inserted the disks to the machine, to next available slot in the each controller (HDD1 and HDD5).
Now, when booting, there is a complaint about "Corrupt label/wrong magic number", about both new disks, but apparently that's normal when disks have no labels..
So moving forward. I check with format, what it shows:
Code:
$ sudo format
Password:
Searching for disks...done
c0t5000CCA025A297C4d0: configured with capacity of 279.38GB
c0t5000CCA025A329E0d0: configured with capacity of 279.38GB
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0t5000CCA0259D2B78d0 <SUN300G cyl 46873 alt 2 hd 20 sec 625> solaris
/scsi_vhci/disk@g5000cca0259d2b78
/dev/chassis//SYS/HDD0/disk
1. c0t5000CCA025A297C4d0 <HITACHI-H106030SDSUN300G-A2B0 cyl 46873 alt 2 hd 20 sec 625>
/scsi_vhci/disk@g5000cca025a297c4
/dev/chassis//SYS/HDD1/disk
2. c0t5000CCA0259C678Cd0 <SUN300G cyl 46873 alt 2 hd 20 sec 625> solaris
/scsi_vhci/disk@g5000cca0259c678c
/dev/chassis//SYS/HDD4/disk
3. c0t5000CCA025A329E0d0 <HITACHI-H106030SDSUN300G-A2B0 cyl 46873 alt 2 hd 20 sec 625>
/scsi_vhci/disk@g5000cca025a329e0
/dev/chassis//SYS/HDD5/disk
Seems all good here, so as per instructions (also found this: blog post), I see if I can create a zpool with the new drives (c0t5000CCA025A297C4d0 and c0t5000CCA025A329E0d0)
Code:
$ zpool create workarea c0t5000CCA025A297C4d0 c0t5000CCA025A329E0d0
cannot open 'c0t5000CCA025A297C4d0': no such device in /dev/dsk
must be a full path or shorthand device name
So, I go to the /dev/dsk to see what's going on. I check what the book disk (c0t5000CCA0259D2B78d0) looks like:
What does those letters from a-h mean in the scsi part ? They seem to correspond to those last 2 digits sX (1-7)..
So, when creating the zpool, looks like I need to assign the drive with one of those sX numbers as well.. Can I just start from 0 ?
What are they for ?
Thanks again for your help!
---------- Post updated at 11:42 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:50 AM ----------
D'oh, of course you have to be root to do that, so just "sudo" in front of the zpool command, and everything will go as in the movies
Last edited by julumme; 09-10-2012 at 10:52 PM..
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