Hi group

I'm desperate for help and I'm hoping a guru is out there waiting to help.

I have just installed 4 new hard disks into an existing D1000 but Solaris
cannot see them. They are visible to the OBP when running a probe-scsi-all
:

/pci@8,700000/scsi@2
Target 0
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336704LSUN36G 032C
Target 1
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336704LSUN36G 032C
Target 2
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336704LSUN36G 0326
Target 3
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336607LSUN36G 0307
Target 4
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336607LSUN36G 0307
Target 8
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336704LSUN36G 032C
Target 9
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336704LSUN36G 032C
Target a
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336704LSUN36G 0326
Target b
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336607LSUN36G 0307
Target c
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336607LSUN36G 0307
Target e
Unit 0 Processor SYMBIOS D1000 2
Target f
Unit 0 Processor SYMBIOS D1000 2

(The new disks all have the 0307 firmware)

But whenever I run a devfsadm, touch reconfigure boot or a boot -- -r they
are never visible to format, only the original disks in the D1000 and the 2
internal root disks.

I'm now starting to run out of ideas of what to try, there is nothing to
change in /kernel/drv/sd.conf as these targets are already defined by
default.

I have done a boot net -s off of my jumpstart server and the disks are
immediately visible to format but not through the OS on the root disk. So I
believe the problem is with the OS rather than being a hardware fault.

Can anyone give me some other places to look?? I've searched sunsolve and
net to no avail.

Thanks in advance, Paul.

Paul wrote:
> Hi group
>
> I'm desperate for help and I'm hoping a guru is out there waiting to help.
>
> I have just installed 4 new hard disks into an existing D1000 but Solaris
> cannot see them. They are visible to the OBP when running a probe-scsi-all
> :
>
> /pci@8,700000/scsi@2
> Target 0
> Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336704LSUN36G 032C
> Target 1
> Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336704LSUN36G 032C
> Target 2
> Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336704LSUN36G 0326
> Target 3
> Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336607LSUN36G 0307
> Target 4
> Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336607LSUN36G 0307
> Target 8
> Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336704LSUN36G 032C
> Target 9
> Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336704LSUN36G 032C
> Target a
> Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336704LSUN36G 0326
> Target b
> Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336607LSUN36G 0307
> Target c
> Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336607LSUN36G 0307
> Target e
> Unit 0 Processor SYMBIOS D1000 2
> Target f
> Unit 0 Processor SYMBIOS D1000 2
>
> (The new disks all have the 0307 firmware)
>
> But whenever I run a devfsadm, touch reconfigure boot or a boot -- -r they
> are never visible to format, only the original disks in the D1000 and the 2
> internal root disks.
>
> I'm now starting to run out of ideas of what to try, there is nothing to
> change in /kernel/drv/sd.conf as these targets are already defined by
> default.
>
> I have done a boot net -s off of my jumpstart server and the disks are
> immediately visible to format but not through the OS on the root disk. So I
> believe the problem is with the OS rather than being a hardware fault.
>
> Can anyone give me some other places to look?? I've searched sunsolve and
> net to no avail.
>
> Thanks in advance, Paul.
>
>

By the above, did you mean you did a 'reboot -- -r'?

I would do this first, if you have not already. Get to the OBP promt and
do the following:

ok setenv auto-boot? false
ok reset-all

When it comes back to the OBP prompt:

ok probe-scsi-all (you have already done this but being redundant)
ok boot -r

If format still fails to see the disks try this:

# drvconfig
# disks

At this point I would need more info. I know it sounds like you have
already done all this. One other thing is to look at /etc/path_to_inst,
sometimes that file can get gummed up if you do frequent reconfig boots.

-Chuck