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Operating Systems Solaris Cannot configure RAID on T5240 Post 302799337 by hicksd8 on Friday 26th of April 2013 10:45:57 AM
Old 04-26-2013
I've looked through your post and wow(!) you seem to have a real box of tricks there obviously used with a lot of storage in the past.

I've tried to digest the information you have given but it is incomplete so I'm going to just write a few things that might help and then ask you to post back further questions. You need to do some Google research yourself on the products in there.

Firstly, you've got two QLogic QLE2462 (Google that) fibre channel controllers in there (either both on one card) or more likely two separate cards with no disk drives attached. To simplify things I would take the lid of the box and pull them out.

There also seems to be an Adaptec RAID ASR5805 (Google that) card in there that has four disks attached.

The Sun T5240 has an on-board RAID (1 and 0) controller which is a LSI brand. The command for managing that one is raidctl; a command you have tried. Try using the -S switch with raidctl which will tell you the existing status/configuration. It looks like there are no disks attached to that one either but see what
Code:
raidctl -S

tells you.

Research the Adaptec (Google) for documentation and command set to control that one.

By defaulting the OBP and NVRAM you will have reset the Sun hardware but NOT any RAID configuration on any of these cards. Therefore, if there is still a RAID array configured, it may be masking the existence of one or more disks and presenting them to the system as one LUN.

As I said, research all this stuff and post back your progress and any questions.

Really hope that helps.

After thought......you might be able to disconnect the disks from the add-on Adaptec controller (and remove it) and reconnect them to the on-board LSI if they are compatible drives (SATA vs SCSI vs SAS or whatever).

Sun (StorageTek) OEM's the Adaptec ASR 5805..........
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19269-01/.../chapter2.html

Last edited by hicksd8; 04-26-2013 at 12:16 PM.. Reason: Add link to Oracle documentation
 

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TWS(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    TWS(4)

NAME
tws -- 3ware 9750 SATA+SAS 6Gb/s RAID controller card driver SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device scbus device tws Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): tws_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
The tws driver provides support for LSI's 3ware 9750 SATA+SAS 6Gb/s RAID controller cards. These controllers feature the LSISAS2108 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC) and are available in 4- and 8-port configurations, supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and single disk, with 96 SATA and/or SAS hard drives and SSDs. For further hardware information, see http://www.lsi.com/. HARDWARE
The tws driver supports the following SATA/SAS RAID controller: o LSI's 3ware SAS 9750 series LOADER TUNABLES
Tunables can be set at the loader(8) prompt before booting the kernel or stored in loader.conf(5). hw.tws.cam_depth The maximum queued CAM SIM requests for one controller. The default value is 256. hw.tws.enable_msi This tunable enables MSI support on the controller if set to a non-zero value. The default value is 0. hw.tws.queue_depth The maximum queued requests for one controller. hw.tws.use_32bit_sgls Limit the driver to use only 32-bit SG elements regardless whether the operating system is running in 64-bit mode. The default value is 0. FILES
/dev/da? array/logical disk interface /dev/tws? management interface DIAGNOSTICS
Whenever the driver encounters a command failure, it prints out an error code in the format: "ERROR: (<error source>: <error code>):", fol- lowed by a text description of the error. There are other error messages and warnings that the driver prints out, depending on the kinds of errors that it encounters. If the driver is compiled with TWS_DEBUG defined, it prints out a whole bunch of debug messages. SEE ALSO
da(4), scsi(4) AUTHORS
The tws driver was written by Manjunath Ranganathaiah for LSI and this manual page was written by Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org> for iXsystems, Inc. BSD
October 4, 2011 BSD
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