Talk:SRE/Dc-operations/Platform-specific documentation/Sun Fire X4500 and X4540
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We were trying to work out which disks were which recently when we had a couple of failures (under Linux). The mad disks were reported as /dev/sdab and /dev/sdae. Hopping on the box, I saw:
# lspci | grep Marvell 01:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 09) 02:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 09) 05:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 09) 06:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 09) 0a:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 09) 0b:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 09)
That's how they show up. If the order is the same as in Solaris, then...
# ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000\:06* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2009-04-15 12:19 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:06:01.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sdy lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-04-15 12:19 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:06:01.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1 -> ../../sdy1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2009-04-15 12:19 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:06:01.0-scsi-1:0:0:0 -> ../../sdz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-04-15 12:19 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:06:01.0-scsi-2:0:0:0 -> ../../sdaa lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-04-15 12:19 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:06:01.0-scsi-3:0:0:0 -> ../../sdab lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-04-15 12:19 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:06:01.0-scsi-4:0:0:0 -> ../../sdac lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2009-04-15 12:19 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:06:01.0-scsi-4:0:0:0-part1 -> ../../sdac1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-04-15 12:19 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:06:01.0-scsi-5:0:0:0 -> ../../sdad lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-04-15 12:19 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:06:01.0-scsi-7:0:0:0 -> ../../sdaf
Our bad disk /dev/sdab would be the 4th disk off the 4th controller. And, it seemd like pci-0000:06:01.0-scsi-6:0:0:0 "ought to be" sdae which would make that the 7th disk off that controller.
The boot disks would have been the 4th controller as well (disk 1 and 5 of of same controller have md0 ( = sdy1 and sdac1), and md0 has slash). That jives with the diagram.
This means, maybe: the bad disks were disks 36 and 25 on the diagram.