On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:59 AM, A Darren Dunham <ddun...@taos.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:51:25PM -0700, Neal Pollack wrote: > > >Step 3, you'll be presented with the disks to be selected as in > > >previous releases. So, for example, to select the boot disks on the > > >Thumper, > > >select both of them: > > > > > >[x] c5t0d0 > > >[x] c4t0d0 > > > > Why have the controller numbers/mappings changed between Solaris 10 > > and Solaris Nevada? I just installed Solaris Nevada 110 to see what > > it would do. Thank you, and I now understand that to find the disk > > name, like above c5t0d0 for physical slot 0 on X4500, I can use > > "cfgadm | grep sata3/0" > > > I also now understand that in the installer screens, I can select 2 > > disks and they > > will become a mirrored root zpool. > > > > > What I do not understand, is that on Solaris Nevada 110, the x4500 > > Thumper physical > > disk slots 0 and 1 are labeled as controller 3 and not controller 5. > > For example; > > > > # cfgadm | grep sata3/0 > > sata3/0::dsk/c3t0d0 disk connected configured ok > > # cfgadm | grep sata3/4 > > sata3/4::dsk/c3t4d0 disk connected configured ok > > # uname -a > > SunOS zcube-1 5.11 snv_110 i86pc i386 i86pc > > The numberings are not pre-set, and probably have nothing to do with > Solaris 10 vs Nevada (or ZFS). > > Controller numberings are sequential as they are discovered by the OS. > So different probe order, post-boot hardware installations, or when > drivers get installed can case the number assigned to be different on > different machines. > > > Of course, that means I shold stay away from all the X4500 and ZFS docs > if > > I run Solaris Nevada on an X4500? > > Why would that be? It doesn't claim that there will be a particular > mapping for a particular X4500. > > > Any ideas why the mapping is not matching s10 or the docs? > > As far as I read, the docs are giving you an example. They're not > declaring that yours will be the same. > Just an observation, but it sort of defeats the purpose of buying sun hardware with sun software if you can't even get a "this is how your drives will map" out of the deal... --Tim
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