[rescue] External drives on an X4540

[Phil Stracchino]

On 10/19/19 3:44 PM, Jonathan Sturges wrote:
> Phil,
> I've done something very similar on my V240 and didn't seem to run into these
> problems. B I posted a write-up of it once here... I'll try to dig that up in
> a bit. B But anyway, my first thought is that you should be suspicious of your
> multilane cable. B 2nd thought is, make sure you know the configuration of
> your HBA's ports. B The one thing I remember to be odd -- and may or may not
> play into your situation -- is that the Solaris 10 LSI driver man page claims
> it doesn't support port expanders, yet the HBA I am using has expanders and
> seems to work fine.

That is an interesting detail.  Also this is Solaris 11.3, not 10.
Which man page is that?  I'm not sure what to look for...


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