SunFire X2200 and SAS JBOD J4200 - removal of hard disk issue

Hello,
We just purchased one X200 M2 server and a J4200 JBOD storage attached to SAS HBA of the server. The J4200 array works and we can access all the disks properly, create ZFS pools - all works.
We have a problem when we try to identify the correct position of a failed disk (for example) on the J4200 drive slot.
For example disks c5t5d0 and c5t6d0 are actually in slots 1 and 9 in the array.
We tried using cfgadm command but we are getting errors:
# cfgadm -x locator c5::dsk/c5t5d0
cfgadm: Hardware specific failure: unavailable
# cfgadm -c unconfigure c5::dsk/c5t5d0
cfgadm: Hardware specific failure: failed to unconfigure SCSI device: I/O error
What is the correct way to identify the drive position of a disk device when using SAS JBOD array like J4200?

Hello Paul,
the drive should work in your system, except the drive is damaged/malfunctioning.
Have you tried a single drive or several of these ?
I would suggest that you check if the drive is properly seated in the backplane. Is the mounting backet properly attached ? I had a drive that was properly detected, but worked un-reliable. After re-attaching the mounting bracket to the drive, the errors vanished.
Applying Sun firmware to a non-Sun device doesn't work, because the update utility checks the manufacturer of the installed firmware.
I'm using these inexpensive drives in my private systems (F280R, Blade 1000/2000). Some of the drives have been taken by the previous owner/seller out of service due to "preventive" maintainance. One has even grown defects.
Michael
Edited by: MAAL on 05.09.2009 20:00

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