(Disclaimer: I put this in the "dummies" section because I am a UNIX noob and I'm not really sure what I'm doing so I felt like it belonged here. If it belongs in the Solaris section I can delete this and post it there)
I was handed over an Oracle SPARC T3-1 machine at work, with 8 physical disks installed. I installed Solaris 11 on one of the disks, but when I boot the OS up, only two disks appear:
I don't think there is a RAID configuration set up on this machine (is this the proper way to check?):
I looked these commands up online (select scsi0, show-volumes) so I'm not sure if this is the correct way to check for RAID configuration. However, the results do look different from our other T3-1 machine, which shows all 8 disks properly:
I'm not very familiar with the OK prompt, sorry if this is an obvious question. I also have the output of "show-disks" and "devalias" from both systems, if that helps.
Any ideas why my disks aren't all showing up in Solaris?
Be careful if there's data on the disks that you need!!!
It might just be that the disks aren't "labelled" with a Sun label. When labelled properly a Sun box can read the label and identify the drive.
You can write new labels to the drive(s) by launching the format command with the -e switch (expert mode) which will give you access to a "scsi" menu. Again be careful if there's data on the drives that you need.
Hope that helps.
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You always have to consider that there might be a hardware or connection problem that prevents the machine from seeing the disks.
Be careful if there's data on the disks that you need!!!
It might just be that the disks aren't "labelled" with a Sun label. When labelled properly a Sun box can read the label and identify the drive.
You can write new labels to the drive(s) by launching the format command with the -e switch (expert mode) which will give you access to a "scsi" menu. Again be careful if there's data on the drives that you need.
Hope that helps.
Luckily there's no important data on the disks, so I'm okay with losing everything as long as I can get all of the disks recognized. I tried running 'format -e' and it looks like it still only sees two disks, unless I misunderstood and I was supposed to run this from the OK prompt:
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You always have to consider that there might be a hardware or connection problem that prevents the machine from seeing the disks.
Hm I hadn't thought of that, maybe I should take out and reseat the disks. Thank you for your help!
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