SUMMARY: Re: adding a second SATA drive on SunFire X2100

Here's a (belated) summary of answers to my question. There are
several ways to skin the cat, IIRC in my case the first
answer below already worked.


Tim Evans <tkevans@tkevans.com>:
Did you do a reconfiguration reboot?  Did you run 'drvconfig', then 'disks'?

"Truhn, Chad" <Chad.Truhn@argonst.com>:
I would advise trying devfsadm to see if it will pick up the disk.  If
not try stopping and starting volume management (/etc/rc2.d/S92volmgt in
Solaris 8) then re-running devfsadm -C then devfsadm.

Anthony D'Atri <aad@verio.net>:
dmesg shows boot-time messages.  It won't show there until after the
next reboot.  Did you run "devfsadm" then look for it with "format"?

Hutin Bertrand <Bertrand.Hutin@fr.Fujitsu.com>:
maybe devfasdm -v?
or cfgadm

Mike Schmitt <michael.c.schmitt@Dartmouth.EDU>:
I had trouble with the backplane on one of my 2100... One SATA drive
worked the other was dead. I replaced the backplane and both came to life...

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 04:35:44PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> Hello fellow sysadmins,
> 
> I have plugged in a second SATA drive into a Solaris 10
> Sun Fire X2100 system with the sole purpose of dd'ing
> a system image to it.
> 
> Unfortunately, the system gives me no signs it actually
> sees the drive (I'm away from it, so I can't just look
> into BIOS). I've looked into dmesg, but I only see
> 
> May 18 13:15:58 u13 genunix: [ID 640982 kern.info]      IDE device at targ 0,
> lun 0 lastlun 0x0
> May 18 13:15:58 u13 genunix: [ID 846691 kern.info]      model ST380013AS
> May 18 13:15:58 u13 genunix: [ID 479077 kern.info]      ATA/ATAPI-6 supported,
> majver 0x7e minver 0x1b
> May 18 13:16:00 u13 pci: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: ide@0, ata2
> May 18 13:16:00 u13 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ata2 is
> /pci@0,0/pci-ide@7/ide@0
> May 18 13:16:00 u13 genunix: [ID 773945 kern.info]      UltraDMA mode 6
> selected
> May 18 13:16:00 u13 gda: [ID 243001 kern.info] Disk0:   <Vendor 'Gen-ATA '
> Product 'ST380013AS      '>
> May 18 13:16:00 u13 ata: [ID 496167 kern.info] cmdk0 at ata2 target 0 lun 0
> May 18 13:16:00 u13 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] cmdk0 is
> /pci@0,0/pci-ide@7/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
> May 18 13:16:00 u13 unix: [ID 672469 kern.info] SMBIOS not loaded (SMBIOS
> format is too old for processing)
> 
> there. I have several such drives operating in other
> X2100's (running amd64 Debian, though).
> 
> What is your suggestion to the further course of action?
> (I can always call the hoster, attach a console and have them look for
> whether the drive is seen by the BIOS, but I'd rather try something
> else before doing that).
> 
> Thanks!

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