From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 21:03:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C4E106564A for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 21:03:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout018.mac.com (asmtpout018.mac.com [17.148.16.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A4118FC0C for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 21:03:50 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp018.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-20.01 64bit (built Nov 21 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LL300L1OP5Z0780@asmtp018.mac.com> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 May 2011 14:03:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.2.15,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-05-12_08:2011-05-12, 2011-05-12, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1105120159 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <6FDABC4F-6F50-4AC7-8469-A96D2F8ED301@exonetric.com> Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 14:03:35 -0700 Message-id: <29A273F6-04AA-43CA-AC20-5D9B97B4B05F@mac.com> References: <6FDABC4F-6F50-4AC7-8469-A96D2F8ED301@exonetric.com> To: Mark Blackman X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: Dillin Smith , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard drive detection X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 21:03:50 -0000 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