Using luxadm command to check/enable fast writes on drives in V880.

[froggger]

Can anyone offer an example of the correct syntax for luxadm to display if it has fast_write enabled on any of the disks in an enclosure and then how to enable this. I am trying to figure out the commmnands but am having a hard time. Command syntax type (for enabling fast_writes) luxadm -v fast_write -e pathname and (to display disk status) luxadm -v display enclosure,dev pathname

 

[vGogh]

Here are some examples but check out the luxadm man page there are examples for pathnames of all kinds of different storages and how to look them up.

eg.
luxadm -v fast_write -d /devices/sbus@1f,0/SUNW,socal@1,0/sf@0,0/ssd@w2200002037000f96,0:a,raw

luxadm -v fast_write -e /devices/sbus@3.0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@0,0/ssd@w2200002037049fc3,0:a,raw

Part of the man page:
SPARCstorage Array Subcommands
fast_write [ -s ] -c pathname

fast_write [ -s ] -d pathname

fast_write [ -s ] -e pathname
Enable or disable the use of the NVRAM to enhance the
performance of writes in the SPARCstorage Array. path-
name refers to the SPARCstorage Array controller or to
an individual disk.

SunOS 5.9 Last change: 4 Sep 2001 13

System Administration Commands luxadm(1M)

-s Cause the SPARCstorage Array to save the change
so it will persist across power-cycles.

-c Enable fast writes for synchronous writes only.

-d Disable fast writes.

-e Enable fast writes.