Hard drive detection

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu May 12 21:03:50 UTC 2011


On May 12, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Mark Blackman wrote:
> Power problems (i.e. under-rated PSU)? Staggered spin-up means they're not all coming up quickly enough?

While your suggestion would generally be a decent guess, the dmesg implies the box is a Sun X4540; it probably has two or three 1500W PSUs:

  http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4540/specs.xml

> With a rig as complex as that, I'd boot up another OS, like Linux or Windows and see if they can see all the drives. 

How about Solaris?  :-)

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck



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