I'm building a couple of E4500's both with the same spec and seem to be having an issue with the disk boards on each.
I’m running the following config
E4500 6 x 400MHz, 6GB, 2 x X2612A with cards, 1 x disk board with 2 x 9.1GB 10K Disk
I have configured the machine as follows
Front Slot (0) 1 x X2602A with 2 x 400Mhz & 2GB Slot (2) 1 x X2602A with 2 x 400Mhz & 2GB Slot (4) 1 x X2602A with 2 x 400Mhz & 2GB
Back Slot (1) 1 x X2612A with 1 x X1065A & 2 x X1049A Slot (3) 1 x X2612A with 2 x LP9002S-E Slot (5) 1 x X5163A with 2 x X5235A
The disk board is terminated with a SCSI SE terminator on the out port and the in port is connected via a 68Pin SCSI to the onboard SCSI connector on the second X2612A in Slot (3).
The machine seems to run diags etc all fine and sees both the disk and the DVD in probe-scsi-all. I was able to install Solaris 10 Sparc edition 10/09 without a problem and ran prtdiag etc all seemed ok as far as I could tell.
However when I type boot disk the machine is not able to boot from the installed disk it keeps defaulting to
HTML Code:
/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@0,0
which is the incorrect address for the boot disk.
I did the following
{0} ok
Code:
probe-scsi-all
/sbus@7,0/lpfs@0,0
/sbus@7,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000
Target c Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST39204LCSUN9.0G42070038V0YNQW
Target d Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST39204LCSUN9.0G42030038V0YY19
/sbus@6,0/lpfs@1,0
/sbus@3,0/QLGC,isp@0,10000 invalid command
/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000
Target 6 Unit 0 Removable Read Only device TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1401100912/20/00
To get around this I created a second alias “disk” and tried to remove the existing one
Code:
nvalias disk /sbus@7,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@c,0
Code:
nvunalias disk /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@0,0
Code:
setenv boot-device disk
Code:
reset
Upon reset the machines failed to remove the original disk, however now it has two alias’s which are “disk” the one I have added is in front of the old one and now if I type ” boot disk” it boots the OS
Intrlv. Intrlv.
Brd Bank MB Status Condition Speed Factor With
--- ----- ---- ------- ---------- ----- ------- -------
0 0 1024 Active OK 60ns 4-way A
0 1 1024 Active OK 60ns 4-way A
2 0 1024 Active OK 60ns 4-way A
2 1 1024 Active OK 60ns 2-way B
4 0 1024 Active OK 60ns 4-way A
4 1 1024 Active OK 60ns 2-way B
Detached Boards
===============
Slot State Type Info
---- --------- ------ -----------------------------------------
5 disabled disk Disk 0: Target: 12 Disk 1: Target: 13
No failures found in System
===========================
Detected System Faults
======================
PROM detected failure
Detected Mon May 23 11:15:05 2011
========================= Environmental Status =========================
Keyswitch position is in Normal Mode
System Power Status: Redundant
System LED Status: GREEN YELLOW GREEN
WARNING ON ON BLINKING
Fans:
-----
Unit Status
---- ------
Rack OK
Key OK
AC OK
System Temperatures (Celsius):
------------------------------
Brd State Current Min Max Trend
--- ------- ------- --- --- -----
0 OK 31 30 32 stable
1 OK 38 37 38 stable
2 OK 33 31 34 stable
3 OK 43 42 43 stable
4 OK 31 28 32 stable
CLK OK 29 29 29 stable
Power Supplies:
---------------
Supply Status
--------- ------
0 OK
1 OK
2 OK
3 OK
PPS OK
System 3.3v OK
System 5.0v OK
Peripheral 5.0v OK
Peripheral 12v OK
Auxiliary 5.0v OK
Peripheral 5.0v precharge OK
Peripheral 12v precharge OK
System 3.3v precharge OK
System 5.0v precharge OK
AC Power OK
The machines both seem to be fine now as long as I don’t set-defaults which change’s the boot disk back to the old one.
The only bit that looks a strange to me is that the disk boards on both machines are labelled as disabled in prtdiag -v and both turn on their amber lights while booting into the OS and the amber light remains on while in the OS, although they both boot fine.
I seem to be runnig the latest OBP available for these machines. I thought it maybe because I was using 10K disks and the board were not a high enough rev to run them, but when I re-installed on some 7.2K RPM disks they behaved the same. I have also run 3 different cables from the disk board to the X2612A and all do the same. The machines apart from that seem fine, but I don't know if the amber light is normal or if the is an underlying problem
Any advice is much appreciated
Last edited by wallrunn3r; 05-24-2011 at 03:15 AM..
Can please somebody tell me what could be the reason for the following error (Unix Motorola Server):
/usr/etc/ce3/s374: Board at address 0xff10000 not present - Entry skipped.
/dev/lpc2: I/O error
I already replaced the board 374 on the server, but I have the same problem.
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