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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

04-26-2013

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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

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aac

AAC(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    AAC(4)

NAME

     aac -- Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver

SYNOPSIS

     aac* at pci? dev ? function ?
     ld* at aac? unit ?

DESCRIPTION

     The aac driver provides support for the Adaptec AAC family of SCSI and SATA RAID controllers.  These controllers support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10,
     and volume sets.  They have four channels in the add-in version or 1-2 channels in the motherboard integrated version, and are most often
     found rebadged by Dell, Hewlett-Packard or IBM.  Supported controllers include:

     o	 Adaptec AAC-364
     o	 Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S
     o	 Adaptec SCSI RAID 2200S
     o	 Adaptec SATA RAID 2410SA
     o	 Adaptec SATA RAID 3405
     o	 Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S
     o	 Dell PERC 2/Si
     o	 Dell PERC 2/QC
     o	 Dell PERC 3/Di
     o	 Dell PERC 3/Si
     o	 Dell PERC 320/DC
     o	 Dell CERC SATA RAID 1.5/6ch
     o	 HP NetRAID 4M
     o	 HP ML110 G2 (Adaptec SATA RAID 2610SA)
     o	 IBM ServeRAID 8k

     Access to RAID containers is available via the ld device driver.  Individual drives cannot be accessed unless they are part of a container or
     volume set, and non-fixed disks cannot be accessed.  Containers can be configured by using the on-board BIOS utility of the card.

DIAGNOSTICS

     The adapter can send status and alert messages asynchronously to the driver.  These messages are printed on the system console.

SEE ALSO

     intro(4), ld(4)

HISTORY

     The aac driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.6, and was based on the FreeBSD driver of the same name.

BUGS

     This driver is not compatible with controllers that have version 1.x firmware.  The firmware version is the same as the kernel version
     printed in the BIOS POST and driver attach messages.

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