If you've only got 2 ports on the LSI card for 12 drives, then an expander has to be in play.
-J On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Andy Lubel <alu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm betting there is an expander, it looks fancy and some enclosure device > shows up in the lsi firmware as well as cfgadm output.. Its also dual > ported (and I have tried unplugging one cable with no different behavior). > I may or may not be able to test these drives in another system.. let me > try some shuffling and I will report my findings. I knew this R510 was > going to be a challenge, but I didn't think for the backplane.. > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Jason J. W. Williams < > jasonjwwilli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Andy Lubel <alu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > IT firmware didn't work, same issue. I am really leaning towards some > > sort > > > of enclosure problem (backplane) - any ideas how to troubleshoot that? > > > > > > > Do the 2TB 2.5" drives work in other systems? Have you tried other drives > > you might have lying around to narrow it down to just the 2TB drives? Are > > there SAS expanders in the backplane? > > > > -J > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss