[SunHELP] (no subject)

You're right - I was referring to a disk board.  I didn't know the E3500 had
internal FCAL drives but I've looked it up and it surely does.

A google search found little on this but I did find a "for sale" notice that
describes the disks as:

  X6709A	Internal 9GB FC-AL hot swap disk drive

...so they might well be hot-insertable/swappable.

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Jones [mailto:tjones at statesman.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 8:03 AM
To: Sunhelp
Subject: Fw: [SunHELP] (no subject) 


The E3500 does have up to 8 internal disk drives and they should be hot
pluggable
since they are FCAL drives.  It's always safest to shutdown but you should
be able to insert the drives they issue the drvconfig, devlinks, disks
commands
to see the new drives.

I think Mark is referring to the diskboard which installs in the system
board
slot normally occupied by a CPU/Memory board or an I/O board.  Use of those
disk boards on an E3500 is a waste of expansion room and a loss of I/O
performance
given the FCAL internal drives that should be used instead.

Tom Jones

----- Original Message -----
From: Donaldson, Mark <Mark.Donaldson at experianems.com>
To: 'Feras Philip Malouf' <feras at eccdxb.co.ae>; <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:18 PM
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] (no subject)


> A great deal of hardware is hot-swappable on Sun hardware, disks on the
E4x0
> series for example.
>
> The E3500, however, only allows disks to be added internally via an
internal
> disk board (a waste of a valuable system slot) or via external disk packs
> and a SCSI cable.  There's no issues to adding external disks hot.
>
> Adding internal disk boards is not mentioned among the highly available
> features available on the E3500, however.  You can read that page here:
> http://www.sun.com/servers/midrange/e3500/details.html#g2_5 and even then,
> the hot-swap "dynamic reconfiguration" options are described as supported
on
> sol 7 & 8.  I'd recommend adding a new disk board while cold on a v2.6
> system.
>
> The newly added external disks can be discovered with a reconfig reboot
> (boot -r) or by doing these three commands in sequence while the system is
> up:
>
> drvconfig && devlinks && disks
>
> Note that these can take quite a while on some systems and they don't
> necessarily work as reliably as a reconfig reboot.
>
> Good luck,
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Feras Philip Malouf [mailto:feras at eccdxb.co.ae]
> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 10:59 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] (no subject)
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a SUN E3500 server running Solaris 2.5, I need to add a disk to the
> system itself, do I need
> to power off the server or I can add it on the fly, what commands do I
need
> to
> do on the server to make
> it see the disk.
>
> Many Thanks,
> Feras.
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