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Verifying That a Drive Is Installed Correctly
Using Drives In the Origin200 Server
Use the following checklist to determine if a drive is installed correctly:
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Power on the system and watch drive lights. Drives should blink as they are
accessed sequentially from drive 1 at the bottom of the 3.5-inch drive bay
(right-hand side in a rack-mounted server) up to the top drive in the 5.25-inch
peripheral carrier.
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Check the system console; malfunctioning drives cause the operating system to
print an error message on the system console as the system boots.
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When the system boots (either single-user mode, or multiuser mode), use hinv to see
what drives the system recognizes. Log in to the system using any account (root,
guest, and so on) and at a shell prompt type:
hinv -c disk
You should see messages similar to this:
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 0
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B
Integral SCSI controller 4: Version QL1040B
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 4
Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 4
Integral SCSI controller 5: Version QL1040B
This indicates the system recognizes two disk drives on SCSI channel 0 (the system
drive in slot 1 and a second drive installed in slot 3) and no drives on channel 1. The
second module of this system also has two drives installed on channel 0 (in slots 1
and 2) and no drives installed in channel 1.
Once installed, Silicon Graphics-provided peripherals are all recognized by the
operating system (IRIX) and are ready to be configured for use with the system. Table 8-1
indicates where to turn for more information about configuring drives, depending upon
how you want to use the drives in your system (for example, as mounted filesystems,
logical volumes spanning multiple disks, striped across multiple disks, EFS filesystems,
or XFS filesystems).
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