I finally have a summary for this.
This turned out to be more an IBM problem than Sun.
The machine has ten 9-Gig IBM drives.
It turned out that even after the drives are "clicked"
properly in and the drive light comes on, they still
had to be pushed back a half inch deeper. The connectors
on the IBM drives are "short" so the drives need to sit back
deeper than most vendors drives. It's something that was not
self-evident to the Sun Service Engineer either. The lower
backplane connected better than the expansion plane for some reason.
Sounds like IBM drives are NOT a favorite of Sun Service.
Jim
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Hi,
I have an Ultra E450 with a 4-slot UltraSCSI backplane and
an expansion 8-slot UltraSCSI backplane. I've opened the case
and it is properly connected/cabled as per the manual.
There are 10 total drives (4 on original backplane / 6 in expansion).
All "connected" drive lights are on.
I've run "boot --r" and other cmds that do the same function.
I've looked at /kernel/drv/sd.conf and that is okay.
All I can see are the 4 disks in the original backplane.
"format" only shows those 4 disks.
Is there something I'm missing to "see" the other six disks?
Thanks,
Jim
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