Cannot mount XRAID

Using a MacBook Pro running MacOS X 10.4.9, we are unable to even see an XRAID that was initialized as a RAID 5 with RAID Admin with two separate arrays. We were unable to see the disks or volumes in Disk Utility, but could see the disks in RAID Admin and it looks it sees two volumes, too. We would like to format in Disk Utility then use Solaris to mount it.
Apple says we can initialize in RAID Admin, and then Disk Utility should see it, we can format it in UFS, the mount it in Solaris with RAID Admin. Pretty convoluted, huh? Any ideas? Please advise.

When you say you are unable to see them on a MacBook Pro how is it connected to the RAID? The only way to directly access an XRAID is via fibre channel and there is no MBPro fibre channel solution that I know of. If you are connected to the RAID via ether you will be able to see it via RAID Admin and make arrays etc but you will not be able to see it using Disk Utility unless you are connected via fibre.
If the Solaris box is connected via fibre maybe you can create the UFS volume from there. There is a website that is dedicated to using the Xserve RAID from other platforms called http://ailenraid.org that might have more info.
HTH,
=Tod
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in zone:
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[NOTICE: Zone rebooting]
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_144488-17 64-bit
Copyright (c) 1983, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Hostname: dbspfox1
Reading ZFS config: done.
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NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
zonedev 236G 57.6G 23K /zonedev
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zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio 235G 57.6G 23K /zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio
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zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/31mars 81.3G 57.6G 47.3G /zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/31mars
zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/31mars/data 34.0G 57.6G 34.0G /zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/31mars/data
zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/dev 89.7G 57.6G 50.1G /zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/dev
zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/dev/data 39.6G 57.6G 39.6G /zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/dev/data
zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/preprod 53.3G 57.6G 12.9G /zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/preprod
zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/preprod/data 40.4G 57.6G 40.4G /zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/preprod/data
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svc:/system/filesystem/local:default (local file system mounts)
State: maintenance since Fri Nov 04 10:07:33 2011
Reason: Start method exited with $SMF_EXIT_ERR_FATAL.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS
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Impact: 33 dependent services are not running:
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svc:/application/stosreg:default
svc:/application/graphical-login/cde-login:default
svc:/application/cde-printinfo:default
svc:/network/smtp:sendmail
svc:/application/management/seaport:default
svc:/application/management/snmpdx:default
svc:/application/management/dmi:default
svc:/application/management/sma:default
svc:/network/sendmail-client:default
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svc:/system/cron:default
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svc:/network/shares/group:default
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svc:/network/rpc/gss:default (Generic Security Service)
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svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
svc:/application/autoreg:default
svc:/application/stosreg:default
svc:/application/graphical-login/cde-login:default
svc:/application/cde-printinfo:default
svc:/network/smtp:sendmail
svc:/application/management/seaport:default
svc:/application/management/snmpdx:default
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Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/ 59G 1.1G 58G 2% /
/dev 59G 1.1G 58G 2% /dev
/lib 261G 7.5G 253G 3% /lib
/platform 261G 7.5G 253G 3% /platform
/sbin 261G 7.5G 253G 3% /sbin
/usr 261G 7.5G 253G 3% /usr
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object
swap 2.1G 248K 2.1G 1% /etc/svc/volatile
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 2.1G 0K 2.1G 0% /tmp
swap 2.1G 16K 2.1G 1% /var/run
zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio
293G 23K 58G 1% /zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio
zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622
293G 10G 58G 16% /zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622
zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/31mars
293G 47G 58G 46% /zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/31mars
zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/31mars/data
293G 34G 58G 38% /zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/31mars/data
zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/dev/data
293G 40G 58G 41% /zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/dev/data
zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/preprod
293G 13G 58G 19% /zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/preprod
zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/preprod/data
293G 40G 58G 42% /zonedev/dbspfox1/biblio/P622/preprod/data
What i missed? what happen with zfs dev directory?
thank you
Walter

Hi
I finally found the problem.
ZFS naming restrictions:
names must begin with a letter
Walter

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I tried to mount manually:
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>
DarrenThanks,
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Mónica wrote:
Hi Kamran Agayev A.,
thank you so much, I have solve the issue!!
I have executed your command, and after I startup the DB and it works!!!
Regards,
MónicaWell done! :)
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Copyright 1983-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
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rebooting...
Resetting ...
PS: I have recently reset the NVRAM on this machine not sure if there are any env settings I should have setup in OBP (I reset HOST ID and MAC-ADDRESS).

disk@0,0:a is slice/partition 0
disk@0,0:b is slice/partition 1
I'm not sure where you told it your swap slice was going to be. Looks like slice 1. Mini-root gets installed in slice 1 and then the install begins from there.
In the future, if you just "boot cdrom" from disk 1 of 2 you won't run into these issues.

10.9: cannot mount westerndigital drive usb3 external, but in 10.8 yes

please why is my text shown on white background? can i change this?
i could not mount my 2 external wd drives (mypassport 2,5" 2TB)
(USB3.0) since install of 10.9 on my 2 brand new macs. (imac 27" i5 late 2013 and mbair i7 mid 2013)
before, with 10.8 it worked fine!
i thought the wd drive is faulty, so i got a new one by warranty, and sent the "old" back. it took only 5 days to get the swap by wd.
i could not mount the new drive either under 10.9
but today i installed techtool pro 7.0.2, did nothing but a reboot and after that, i plugged it into my imac with 10.9, it mounted correctly on my imac, the first time ever! and showed a techtool symbol as drive symbol instead of the orange colored usb symbol.
appearantly techtool pro 7.0.2 installed something into 10.9 which helps the system mount discs?
- i never did lock the drive with the wd security app
- before that, i tried to remove all wd related stuff and uninstalled every single wd app and driver, still no mount !
- before that, apple disctools under 10.9 did not show the drives in the left column, as no other harddisc app did. (drive genius)
- i can mount both drives on the old mbair with 10.8, my wife´s mac
- wd drive utilites would show the disc, but not mount, if i tried to format it, it showed an error after 1min: cannot format disc,
as it cannot be mounted. (or so..)
- now, after install of techtool pro 7.0.2, when i plug the drive into my imac, it is mounted correctly, but there is
always another volume mounted by default "wd drive unlock volume" which says "your wd drive is not locked, so you can not unlock it)
weird?
i still cannot mount the wd drive on my new macbook air with 10.9,
etre check lists as difference:
imac:
Kernel Extensions:
com.wdc.driver.USB.64.10.9 (1.0.1 - SDK 10.9) (today mount possible for the first time since weeks)
macbook air:
no wd driver at all (and no mount possible)
any idea?
thanks
Message was edited by: peppermint

first, you should try reinstalling 10.5.4. download the [combo update|http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx1054com boupdate.html] and run it. If that doesn't fix the issue, you can use full system restore from TM to go back to a time before the troubles started. to do that boot from the leopard install dvd, once past the language screen go to the Utilities menu at the top and choose "restore from backup".

Backup Controller cannot mount XSAN Volume

Hi Guys,
I've really have a big problem regarding the XSAN that I've just setup: There are 3 Xserves connected to the SAN - one for the main controller, one for backup and another one for fileserver. After a fresh install of the Leopard Server 10.5.6 on all servers and fresh install of Xsan 2.0 updated to 2.1.1, I tried creating an SAN from the main controller, I added first the main and backup controllers, authenticated them properly and was successful adding them to the SAN. After this, I created the volume and it mounted properly on the main controller. What I don't understand is that whenever I try to mount the volume to the backup controller, it is saying unable to mount and even I tried forcing it to mount in terminal using the command xsanctl mount VOLNAME, its giving me an error saying
"unable to mount volume, Cannot mount XSAN volume error code: 5"
What is that error message? When I tried typing cvadmin to the main controller, it only gave me this message:
Main Controller:
File System Services (* indicates service is in control of FS)
1>*XSAN[0] located on 10.0.0.101:49930 (pid 317)
Select FSM "XSAN"
When I type the same cvadmin to the backup controller, it gave me this message:
Backup Controller:
File System Service (* indicates service is in control of FS)
1> XSAN[1] located on 10.0.0.102:50384 (pid 331)
No FSSs are active
Select FSM "none"
What is happening? both servers are having a DNS name. Before I created the SAN, from the authenticate window, the server name is just the IP address of the Ethernet 0 (first ethernet port). Now whenever I fire up Xsan Admin, both controllers are now offline and if you authenticate them, the server name info suddenly changed from IP address to a DNS Name (e.g. from 194.170.34.12, changed to hct-mdc.ad.hct.ac.ae) which even if I type my admin username and password cannot authenticate saying "server not found in network"
I really don't know now what to do and they need to fix the issue asap.
I would really appreciate your help guys!
Thanks.
jantoniophi

Hi,
I am accessing this WS via ARD, so public LAN is definitely there. I have not connected the "Xsan" network (but it should be no problems communicating the Xsan traffic over this single LAN connection).
With the firewall, the situation is more strange. When I try to open the Firewall settings on Sharing, there is a dialog "Other firewall software is running on this computer." I googled this and it seems that this was a common problem on 10.3. They suggest to delete com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist file but it is not there on 10.4.
"sudo ipfw list" shows this:
00001 allow udp from any 626 to any dst-port 626
65535 allow ip from any to any
Any ideas on how to make Firewall behave as expected? I will try to reinstall if I don't receive a reply.
Thanks.

Cannot mount volume

Hi
I have a server connected to a MDC.
The MDC is running 10.4.8 server, XSan 1.4.1.
The MDC can mount the SAN correctly.
The client is running 10.4.8 server, XSan 1.4.1
The client cannot mount the SAN.
What I've tried:
Re-installing XSAN
Re-installing the 10.4.8 combo update
Re-installing the 2006-007 security update
Changing from Controller, medium to client and back.
mount -t ... /Volumes/SAN
Every time I get this in the syslog:
Dec 13 13:54:35 xsanclient kernel[0]: Could not mount filesystem SAN, cvfs error ' Timeout' (25)
any ideas

More from the log:
Dec 13 22:17:51 multimedia kernel[0]: Could not mount filesystem SAN, cvfs error ' Timeout' (25)
Dec 13 22:18:37 multimedia kernel[0]: Could not mount filesystem SAN, cvfs error ' Timeout' (25)
Dec 13 22:18:53 multimedia sudo: admin : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/Users/admin ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/system.log
Dec 13 22:19:01 multimedia kernel[0]: Could not mount filesystem SAN, cvfs error ' Timeout' (25)
Dec 13 22:19:23 multimedia servermgrd: xsan: [39/36E6F0] ERROR: getfsmvol_atindex: Could not connect to FSM because Admin Tap Connection to FSM failed. - Operation timed out
Dec 13 22:19:24 multimedia kernel[0]: Could not mount filesystem SAN, cvfs error ' Timeout' (25)

Cannot mount external USB drive

During a recent update I remember pacman asking about replacing some package with another package to handle disk mounting. I think the added package was "gnome-volume-manager" or "gnome-disk-utility" (or both). I didn't see any postings describing problems with doing this, so went ahead and allowed the change. Now it's a few days later and I find I cannot mount an external USB hard drive anymore. It has an entry in fstab, and although I have tried mutiple edits of the device to associate the drive with, nothing works.
The disk used to associate with /dev/sdb1. Now this device no longer exists. Here is what has happened to my /dev/sd* entries:
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-10-27 11:08 /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 2009-10-27 11:08 /dev/sda3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2009-10-27 11:08 /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2009-10-27 11:08 /dev/sda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 2009-10-27 11:08 /dev/sda4
brw-rw---- 1 root storage 8, 16 2009-11-04 13:00 /dev/sdb
Trying to force association with "/dev/sdb" "/dev/sda5" (or some other number not in use) or "sdb1" (or 2,3,4, whatever) just yields "special device ... does not exist".
Does anybody know how to deal with this?
Does anybody know what package(s) I replaced when the update in question took place? I think I'd like to reverse whatever happened.
And on another note, I think another gnome-based package also recently replaced a package relating to printing. Yesterday I discovered I have printing problems too:
At first there were no printers found. Although cups is supposed to start according to rc.conf, cupsd was not running. I started it manually and then all the printers showed up again, though I cannot print duplex (again, worked fine before). What is going on with these gnome packages?!? Anyone know which package(s) I need to remove (and then what to put back) to make printing work like it used to also?
thanks much.

oddly, fdisk -l shows nothing, even for disks which are mounted (eg. /dev/sda4). when I insert a standard USB thumb drive, the following show up properly:
brw-rw---- 1 root storage 8, 32 2009-11-05 10:50 /dev/sdc
brw-rw---- 1 root storage 8, 33 2009-11-05 10:50 /dev/sdc1
and I am able to mount and use the drive as usual.
The external drive I've been struggling with has xfs for filesystem type. After using the thumb drive, /dev/sdb showed up spontaneously, but no /dev/sdb1. attempting to mount gives:
mount: /dev/sdb is not a valid block device
or
mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist
depending on which device is specified in fstab.
I am thinking that either a) my ability to mount xfs filesystems has somehow been hosed, or b) there is something wrong with drive, which must have spontaneously failed very recently (it is less than 1 yr old, but this happens from time to time).
If the drive is okay, any ideas about how mounting xfs filesystems could have been broken by recent upgrades?
btw, the fstab entry (which worked fine until a couple days ago) is: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/external_1 xfs rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0

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