scsi controller configure trouble 1

[rakishoner]

System specs:
ARCH: Sun Sparc e450
OS: Solaris 10
HW: SCSI Controller lsi22802

***Thanks for looking into my problem. Any and all help is welcome!

***My problem is with the above listed scsi controller. In my shell I execute the following commands and the returned out put is shown below.

# cfgadm -al
Ap_Id                          Type         Receptacle   Occupant     Condition
c0                             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t0d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t1d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t2d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t3d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c1                             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c1::dsk/c1t6d0                 CD-ROM       connected    configured   unknown
c1::rmt/0                      tape         connected    configured   unknown
c2                             scsi-bus     connected    unconfigured unknown
c3                             scsi-bus     connected    unconfigured unknown
# cfgadm -c configure c2
# cfgadm -l
Ap_Id                          Type         Receptacle   Occupant     Condition
c0                             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c1                             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c2                             scsi-bus     connected    unconfigured unknown
c3                             scsi-bus     connected    unconfigured unknown
# cfgadm -c disconnect c2
WARNING: Disconnecting critical partitions may cause system hang.
Continue (yes/no)? y
# cfgadm -c connect c2
# cfgadm -al
Ap_Id                          Type         Receptacle   Occupant     Condition
c0                             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t0d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t1d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t2d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t3d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c1                             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c1::dsk/c1t6d0                 CD-ROM       connected    configured   unknown
c1::rmt/0                      tape         connected    configured   unknown
c2                             scsi-bus     connected    unconfigured unknown
c3                             scsi-bus     connected    unconfigured unknown

***At a loss here.

***Thanks in advance for some guidance!

 

[marrow]

Are you asking what does it all mean? Have a good look at "man cfgadm" for a start. You have controllers c0 & c1 but where is c2? What does df -k show. On our Sun V210, we have c0/c1 but no c2.

Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
c0 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
c0::dsk/c0t0d0 CD-ROM connected configured unknown
c1 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
c1::dsk/c1t0d0 disk connected configured unknown
c1::dsk/c1t1d0 disk connected configured unknown
c2 scsi-bus connected unconfigured unknown

 

[rakishoner]

Whoops, left that part out(tried to move post from different forum). The problem is that I have a second scsi card installed with two channels (c2, c3). It is the one in the system specs list in the initial post. As you can see from my out put, it can see the card just fine. The problem is that when I try to run a cfgadm -c configure c2 or even c3, it doesn't configure it. I have 6 hard drives I need to install, but I can't seem to get the controller going.

# df -k
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0    16112966 10975376 4976461    69%    /
/devices                   0       0       0     0%    /devices
ctfs                       0       0       0     0%    /system/contract
proc                       0       0       0     0%    /proc
mnttab                     0       0       0     0%    /etc/mnttab
swap                  954024    1000  953024     1%    /etc/svc/volatile
objfs                      0       0       0     0%    /system/object
fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
swap                  953064      40  953024     1%    /tmp
swap                  953072      48  953024     1%    /var/run
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7     962074    1041  903309     1%    /export/home

 

[cndcadams]

The card you have says in the description;
Dual channel, PCI to Ultra SCSI HVD for Intel systems?
Do you have these exact cards in other systems?


Where are you installing the drives, internal or external?
If internal then you have the wrong card? (internal needs a UltraSCSI card not a Diff card.)

Thanks

CA

 

[rakishoner]

The name on the card is sym22802. I couldn't find it on their site. Seeing that there was a buy out, I did find the same version number with a different mfg prefix, hence the lsi22802. However, I did email them and they sent me these two PDFs:

sym22802.pdf
U40HVD.pdf

From looking at the card it does have the controller interfaces on the inside of the card. Doesn't that mean that it is an internal/external scsi card?

If not then what is the difference between differential and UltraSCSI?

 

[cndcadams]

These documents give me conflicting information.
As far as I see it this seems to be a diff card, you should look at the back of the card and see if it has diff on it.

Also I did not see that it was supported on solaris, it says unixware but what does that cover.

Sun has these cards made as either differential(sun part # 375-0006 or Ultrascsi(375-0005) website

http://au.sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_private/Systems/E450/components.html#SCSI

X6540A 375-0005 [F] Dual Single-Ended Ultra/Wide SCSI (PCI) n/a n/a
X6541A 375-0006 [F] Dual Differential Ultra/Wide SCSI (UDWIS/P)(HVD)

The backplain is scsi not diff scsi;

501-5274 [F] 8-Slot SCSI Disk Backplane

So the internal Scsi backplain does not support differential scsi cards connecting to it. It does not convert diff to Ultra scsi.

If you had a D1000 you could try putting the drives in that and attaching them externally since the D1000 controller is Diff.


Also have you done a probe-scsi-all from the ok prompt?
If yes do you see the drives?

Thanks

CA

 

[marrow]

could try a boot reset?
init 0
then ....
boot -r

 

[cndcadams]

Ok things are coming together;

The Symbios SYM22802 is the differential card, Sun's 375-0006 is also the SYM22802.

The Symbios SYM22801 375-0005 is the UltraSCSI card that Sun uses.

So you are trying to see scsi drives with diff controller and this will not work.

so when you do a probe-scsi-all you will not see the drives.


Thanks

Cadams

 

[rakishoner]

When I do the probe-scsi-all, you are correct, I do not see the drives.

I will have to contact the gentalmen who sent me the card and see about an exchange.

Thanks for the help gentelmen.