> From: Jeppe Toustrup [mailto:openindi...@tenzer.dk]
>
> I have an OpenIndiana server connected to a 12 drive JBOD chassis
> through SAS, and I am trying to figure out the best way to find out
> which physical drive in the chassis resolves to each of the drive
> names visible from the operating system.
There is an official script available from oracle support, and it doesn't do
anything better than this:
prtconf -v /dev/dsk/c2t5000C50034242B55d0s2
Look for "phy-num" and "obp-path" The phy-num is a physical hardware
location, that doesn't necessarily match the slot number, and the obp-path
indicated which controller it's on.
Repeat for each of the devices present in your system.
Truncate the obp-path.
before:
/pci@0,0/pci8086,340a@3/pci1000,3050@0/disk@w5000c50034242b55,0
after: /pci@0,0/pci8086,340a@3/pci1000,3050@0/
As a one-time exercise, make a lookup table. If you know the phy-num and
the truncated obp-path of any given device, then you can lookup the slot
based on that information. But you have to create a lookup table once.
In my example above, I have a lookup table populated with entries like this:
0 0000000b /pci@0,0/pci8086,340a@3/pci1000,3050@0/
where 0 is the actual slot number where I can go find the disk with my hands
and eyeballs in the server room, 0000000b is the phy-num, and /pci...3050@0/
is the truncated obp-path that is associated with c2t5000C50034242B55d0s2
Side note: It just so happens, on my system, my phy-num and slot numbers
are reverses of each other. Slot 0 is phy-num b, and slot 11 is phy-num 0.
As one counts up, the other counts down. Emphasizing the importance of NOT
thinking phy-num is the slot num. But it can be used to find the slot num.
My initial lookup table was created like this:
With only a single disk in the system, I see what slot it's in, I get the
phy-num and obp-path, record it in a file. Add a new disk. Lookup the
phy-num and obp-path, record it in a file. Add another disk...
If you can't pull disks from your system, you can figure it out by doing
something like "dd if=/dev/rdsk/c2t5000C5000blah of=/dev/null" or "zpool
offline mypool c2t5000C5000blah" to make a specific device stay lit up, or
stay off for a little while, so you can find which slot that disk is in.
I suppose you could skip the whole mess above regarding phy-num and
obp-path... Just make a map "c2t5000C5000blah is in slot X" or whatever...
But I suspect it will be more reliable if you actually dig down and get the
phy-num and obp-path.
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