[rescue] SSA trouble

[Michael Schiller]

George Adkins wrote:

> > 0 and 1 are the disks in the sparc20, and only one unknown disktype shows
> > up for the SSA.  what could possible be wrong?  the front panel of the SSA
> > shows that the drives are there, but why can't the sparc20 see them?
> >
> Perhaps because it is an array?

Nope, the SSA is a software RAID unit (JBOD) so it should show all the drives.
Sounds like it has bad drives in it. Maybe changing the locations might help, I've
seen that before.

>
>
> The job of an array is to take a number of disks and use them independently
> maximizing various aspects of their performance or redundancy of arrangement,
> while often displaying them to the host system as a single large logical disk.
>
> Are you seeing the logical drive?
>
> George
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