Re: Adding disk on V245

They are all 2.5" SAS drives.  The V245 supports hotplugging, but I booted
the machine with all the drives installed.  I'll try the scsictl tonight
though I suspect it won't matter.

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Eric Schnoebelen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Gordon Zaft writes:
> - I can't get into firmware on this right now as the serial port it's on
> for
> - console is a crappy USB that doesn't seem to pass along a BREAK :-(.
> -
> - Here's the dmesg.  I'm wondering if the disks I can't see were totally
> - wiped of VTOC before I bought them and the ones I can see weren't.
>
> Where the drives installed before the current boot?
>
> If you installed them after booting the system, try
>         ``scsictl scan all all''
>
> to have the bus rescanned, and any new devices picked up.
>
> - pci11: i/o space, memory space enabled
> - mpt0 at pci11 dev 1 function 0: Symbios Logic SAS1064 (rev. 0x02)
> - mpt0: interrupting at ivec 1f8f
> - mpt0: Phy 0: Link Status Unknown
> - mpt0: Phy 0: Link Status Unknown
> - mpt0: Phy 0: Link Status Unknown
> - mpt0: Phy 0: Link Status Unknown
> - scsibus0 at mpt0: 63 targets, 8 luns per target
>
> Silly question, are the additional drives SAS drives?  I ask as
> the above appears to be a SAS (not SATA) controller.
>
> - Emulex product 0xfc00 (Fiber Channel serial bus, revision 0x01) at pci14
> - dev 1 function 0 not configured
>
> Hmm, that makes me wonder if the second SCSI host bus is a Fibre
> Channel device, and that you might be plugging into it..
>
> Hmm, it's been a while since I've seen or thought about a V245, so
> I am likely mis-remembering something..
>
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> Eric Schnoebelen                [email protected]
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>               understanding is our duty." --Henry A. Wallace
>



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