From: "Solarisexpert.com" <submissions@solarisexpert.com> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:42:03 -0400 Message-ID: <IBEALMOLEDIGBEMJPPDAIEOFCCAA.submissions@solarisexpert.com> Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] install problems on E5000
Well,
You must have at least 1 I/O board in your system. the I/O board is in the
back and it is installed vertically along with the CPU/MEM boards. From the
I/O board (which is the one that has most likely has your graphic card ) you
should see a fibre cable connected either directly to the I/O board itself
or to an FC-AL controller installed on the I/O board (in the same fashione
the video adapter is installed).
That cable is connected at the other end to a thinner, vertical board, which
is your FC-AL module for the E3500. That module carries your translated FC
information over copper to the internal backplane.
You have 4 channels (and 4 gbic module slots): 2 loops X 2 disk backplanes
(Upper and Lower).
They should be marked LA LB UA UB (L=lower U=Upper A=Loop A B=Loop B)
That means you can connect 4 FC-AL :
loop A - bottom disk row (disks 0 - 3)
loop B - bottom disk row
loop A - top disk row (disks 4 - 8)
loop B - top disk row
all you need to get it to work is to have 1 FC-AL controller connected to LA
and your boot disk into slot 0 (of course you can do differently, as you
like).
This is an overview, but since the system as you pointed out, was running
Solaris 2.6, I think (unless you moved drives around) that the issue is
Linux not seeing the FC loop at all. If the FC-AL driver is not part of the
minimal set of boot drivers, the installation program will not see it. If
that is the case. you need an external disk unipack (or similar SCSI device)
as your boot drive.
Cheers
Raoul Volpe
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-----Original Message-----
From: Pablo Niklas [mailto:pniklas@sinectis.com.ar]
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 4:12 PM
To: Solarisexpert.com; suse-sparc@suse.com
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] install problems on E5000
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El Jue 11 Abr 2002 17:05, Solarisexpert.com escribió:
> Now, in addition to stating the obvious, please add the ignorant question:
> are the drivers for the FC controller loaded at boot time so that the
> drives can be recognized ?
I really don't know.. It happened too fast. Anyway, what kind of board is
inside a Enterprise 3500? So, I'll know what I should looking for.
Cheers
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.:: Pablo Niklas ::.
.:: pniklas@sinectis.com.ar ::.
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