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Date:      Thu, 12 May 2011 14:03:35 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com>
Cc:        Dillin Smith <dillinsmith@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hard drive detection
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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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