Hard drive detection

[Mark Blackman]

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?
> 
> 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:
> 
>  http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4540/specs.xml

Ok, good point, missed that.

acpi0: <SUN X4540> on motherboard


> 
>> 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. 
> 
> 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