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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