Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 22:23:46 +0100 From: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Dillin Smith <dillinsmith@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard drive detection Message-ID: <1843A680-E34B-4C07-A0D4-B4C3D00E9245@exonetric.com> In-Reply-To: <29A273F6-04AA-43CA-AC20-5D9B97B4B05F@mac.com> References: <BANLkTi=7QO8p--mfCvugptxCcugRozTKTQ@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTi=rJvLFUbL3gOH%2BeH1wE3xgQF637Q@mail.gmail.com> <6FDABC4F-6F50-4AC7-8469-A96D2F8ED301@exonetric.com> <29A273F6-04AA-43CA-AC20-5D9B97B4B05F@mac.com>
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On 12 May 2011, at 22:03, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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? >=20 > 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: >=20 > http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4540/specs.xml Ok, good point, missed that. acpi0: <SUN X4540> on motherboard >=20 >> 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.=20 >=20 > How about Solaris? :-) Good idea, I've sort of given up on Solaris thanks to Oracle, but that's = a better bet for a test if it's a Sun box. - Mark
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