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calsum
Do you know how do I make my solaris 8 detect the storEDGE A5000?.
I have problem making it recognise, without that I cannot install VxVM.
Any ideas?
A5k huh? Wow it's been ages, lets see what I can recall ...
once you link your fibre cable between server and storage gbic, run the following command
luxadm probe - it should show you what is the A5K enclosure name I think.
luxadm display <enclosure> - will display the disk WWN and status of the disks.
there is a lot of other luxadm commands that you can use like commands to online offline disks, flashing leds. Do a man luxadm to find out more.
On the A5k there is a small touch screen where you can configure single or split loop. Usually unless it's a cluster, single loop is sufficient for a one host connected to A5K. Also If I remember correctly there is a small keyboard or number keypad on the touch screen where you can set the enclosure name here.
You need to add entries into your sd.conf file under /kernel/drv.
backup the file first before doing any modifying.
Once you modified the file,
in / do a touch reconfigure or reboot -- -rv
When server comes up you should be able to see the disk(when you do format), can't remember if is necessary to do any drvconfig or not.
There is a very old FCO I can't remember exactly but it says the A5K has to have a minumum of 3-4 disk, if I remember correctly slot 1,3,5<cant remember last one> needs to be filled with harddisk otherwise there will be some strange problem.
I recall that there is also another old FCO or FIN, a particularly brand of gbics frequently give online/offline loop problems the solution I think is to change to use IBM manufactured gbics.
thats all I have, good luck.
