Subject: Re: Creative use of Raidframe
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
From: Kurt Schreiner <ks@ub.uni-mainz.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 11/23/2006 16:36:32
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 03:23:11PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 09:50:36AM -0500, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
> > In any case the e250 can have multiple SCSI channels?
> 
> It most definitely has multiple, the question only how the disks are
> wired. The easiest way to figure that out is too look at the output
> of "dmesg". Here is an example from my ULTRA60:
> [...]
And here the relevant lines from "format" on an e250 with 6 disks running
Solaris 9. As one can see, all 6 disks are on the same controller
(/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3). AFAIK, the 2nd controller is wired to the
external scsi-connector on the back of the system...
#-2: format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c0t0d0 <SUN9.0G cyl 4924 alt 2 hd 27 sec 133>
          /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0
       1. c0t8d0 <SUN9.0G cyl 4924 alt 2 hd 27 sec 133>
          /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@8,0
       2. c0t9d0 <SEAGATE-ST39173WC-5764 cyl 7499 alt 2 hd 10 sec 237>
          /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@9,0
       3. c0t10d0 <SEAGATE-ST39173WC-5764 cyl 7499 alt 2 hd 10 sec 237>
          /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@a,0
       4. c0t11d0 <SEAGATE-ST39173WC-5764 cyl 7499 alt 2 hd 10 sec 237>
          /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@b,0
       5. c0t12d0 <SEAGATE-ST39173WC-5764 cyl 7499 alt 2 hd 10 sec 237>
          /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@c,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 


Kurt