Adding disk on Sun Fire V245 w/FreeBSD 11

[Gordon Zaft]

I finally figured this out and figured I should document for posterity...

I realized I had not tried to do a probe-scsi from the OBP prompt, so I did
that.  I
got an endless cascade of

Base SAS World Wide ID is 0!
This must be fixed immediately using set-sas-wwid

So digging into this document
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19088-01/v215.srvr/819-3040-18/Disk-vols.html I
realized the onboard RAID was messing me up.

Following the directions, and the ok> prompt:

setenv auto-boot? false
setenv fcode-debug? true
reset-all

Then a
ok>show-disks

Select the SCSI disk controller (for me it was b) )

ok>select ^Y (inserts the line from show-disks; trim off the /disk)

doing

ok>show-volumes

showed that the disks that I wasn't seeing were listed as disabled (or
inactive) volumes.  To fix this I deleted each volume

ok>0 delete-volume
ok>1 delete-volume

ok>show-volumes

now shows no volumes.  Doing a

ok>setenv fcode-debug? false
ok>reset-all

when the system came back a probe-scsi showed the disks now, and when I
boot they are in dmesg.

I still had to put a VTOC on them since, in my case they were IBM disks, or
wiped Sun disks:

/sbin/gpart create -s VTOC8 da1

Then

/sbin/gpart add -t freebsd-ufs da1

to create one big partition.

Then a newfs as usual and you're good to go!

G



On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Gordon Zaft <gordonzaft at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have a Sun Fire V245 running 11.0.  It had one 146GB hard disk in it.  I
> went to add a second similar disk but the OS doesn't seem to see it.  I can
> tell the hardware sees it as if I pull it out while the machine's on I get
> an alert from the ALOM. But I don't see a "da1" device in dmesg.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --
> Gordon Zaft
> Province 35 Governor
> Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity
> gordonzaft at gmail.com
>



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Gordon Zaft
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Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity
gordonzaft at gmail.com