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# 8  
Old 06-02-2010
The luxadm command that you post, show 1 HBA, but if your server is a V880, the hba showed is the "Internal HBA" of V880.

Which HA model has installed the server?, qlogic emulex, jni?

If you have qlogic or emulex, my suggest is install the San Foundation Software to Solaris 9, you can download this package from sun.com/download.

After to install , you can use the "cfgadm -al" command to review if the hba was recognized.

Now, you say that the SAN Administrator configure the zone, then the HBA is working.

If your HBA are JNI, probably you need intsall the EZfiber package and reconfigure the HBA from this utility.

Aditionally, you can modify the /kernel/drv/sd.conf to define the targets and luns that you need see in the server.

The JNI hba are very old, but you can easily found in the internet examples of sd.conf for jni HBA.

After that you config the sd.conf , make a reboot -- -r.

But I insist that the first step is to ensure that the HBA is logged in the SAN switch,

I hope that this help a bit
# 9  
Old 06-03-2010
Hi lufen & cerber0, both your comment helped a lot.

I added on name="sd" parent="jnic146x" target=0; to /kernel/drv/sd.conf & perform a reboot -- -r and was able to detect the san storage. SmilieSmilie

Code:
#prtdiag
========================= IO Cards =========================
                         Bus  Max
     IO   Port Bus       Freq Bus  Dev,
Brd  Type  ID  Side Slot MHz  Freq Func State Name                              Model
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- --------------------------------  ----------------------
I/O  PCI   9    B    6    33   33  2,0  ok    JNI,FCE/sd (block)                FCE-6410 
I/O  PCI   9    B    5    33   33  3,0  ok    pci-pci8086,b154.0/pci108e,1000   PCI-BRIDGE
I/O  PCI   9    B    5    33   33  0,0  ok    pci108e,1000-pci108e,1000.1       device on pci-bridge
I/O  PCI   9    B    5    33   33  0,1  ok    SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe/pci-bridg+
I/O  PCI   9    B    5    33   33  1,0  ok    pci108e,1000-pci108e,1000.1       device on pci-bridge
I/O  PCI   9    B    5    33   33  1,1  ok    SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe/pci-bridg+
I/O  PCI   9    B    5    33   33  2,0  ok    pci108e,1000-pci108e,1000.1       device on pci-bridge
I/O  PCI   9    B    5    33   33  2,1  ok    SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe/pci-bridg+
I/O  PCI   9    B    5    33   33  3,0  ok    pci108e,1000-pci108e,1000.1       device on pci-bridge
I/O  PCI   9    B    5    33   33  3,1  ok    SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe/pci-bridg+
I/O  PCI   9    A    8    33   66  1,0  ok    SUNW,m64B                         SUNW,370-4362

cfgadm -al
Ap_Id                          Type         Receptacle   Occupant     Condition
c0                             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t6d0                 CD-ROM       connected    configured   unknown
pcisch0:hpc1_slot0             unknown      empty        unconfigured unknown
pcisch0:hpc1_slot1             unknown      empty        unconfigured unknown
pcisch0:hpc1_slot2             unknown      empty        unconfigured unknown
pcisch0:hpc1_slot3             unknown      empty        unconfigured unknown
pcisch2:hpc2_slot4             unknown      empty        unconfigured unknown
pcisch2:hpc2_slot5             pci-pci/hp   connected    configured   ok
pcisch2:hpc2_slot6             fibre/hp     connected    configured   ok
pcisch3:hpc0_slot7             unknown      empty        unconfigured unknown
pcisch3:hpc0_slot8             vgs8514/hp   connected    configured   ok
usb0/1                         unknown      empty        unconfigured ok
usb0/2                         unknown      empty        unconfigured ok
usb0/3                         unknown      empty        unconfigured ok
usb0/4                         unknown      empty        unconfigured ok

I was a bit confuse with this, from my previous posting "Opening Device: /devices/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:devctl" should means the HBA is qlogic, am i correct? While at prtdiag, it shows JNI. Does this means i have 2 hba, one internal & another external? Smilie
Last edited by beginningDBA; 06-03-2010 at 01:38 AM..
# 10  
Old 06-03-2010
lufen is right....devfsadm -Cv will builds the new devices and remove the dangling links. After that, the assigned hard disk will be seen from format command.

you can use the following command to find out the devices which is attached in your pci slot.
Code:
prtpicl -c scsi -v |grep -i model

Code:
prtpicl -c scsi -v |grep -i manufacturer

One of my system gives the following details, from the model you can find out which is what.
Code:
prtpicl -c scsi -v |grep -i model
bash-3.00# prtpicl -c scsi -v |grep -i model
  :model         QLGC,ISP10160 
  :model         QLGC,ISP10160 
  :model         FCE-6460-N

Code:
bash-3.00# prtpicl -c scsi -v |grep -i manu 
  :manufacturer  QLGC 
  :manufacturer  QLGC 
  :manufacturer  JNIC

I hope it will help you to find out whether you are having scsi card or hba card or fibre network card ....whatever it is.

Regards
Kingston S
Last edited by kingston; 06-03-2010 at 02:32 AM..
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# 11  
Old 06-05-2010
yes beginningDBA, the V480, V490, V880 and V890 models include a INternal HBA to connect at "internal boot disk", for this reason you can see a qlogic HBA, however the HBA that you connect at the SAN is JNI.

Only for resume.

if you use the native drivers of HBA you cannot configure the HBA with solaris commans (cfgadm, luxad, etc) and is mandatory modify the /kernel/drv/sd.conf to see the SAN disks.

if you use SFS (san foundation software) to Solaris 8 and 9, or the included SAN drivers in solaris 10, you can use cfgadm, luxadm to configure the access to the disks and the /kernel/drv/sd.conf cannot need modified.
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# 12  
Old 06-07-2010
Hi all, the answer you all gave sure helped to clear a lot of my doubts. Many thanks. Smilie
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