Advice, pointers, head-butts needed...
I have for the first time received a just-out-of-the-box Alpha 1000A
5/400 256 Mb which I thought was going to come with DU 4.0b
pre-installed.
It has an internal 2.1 gig RZ28D-VW disk, and another RZ28D-VW in the
first shelf slot followed by six 4.3 gig RZ29B-VW's. I wanted the boot
disk with / and /user to be the internal RZ28D-VW and to mirror this
disk (LSM) on the other RZ28D-VW in the first slot. The six RZ29B-VW's
were to be RAID-5 for data storage (Oracle). (I have no experience with
RAID; I hope this setup makes sense?)
I had visions of simply doing the FIS procedure and getting started.
Alas, I can only boot from the CDROM. Booting the default device fails
with:
boot dka0.0.02000.0 -flags a (where is this?)
failed to open dka0.0.0.2000
"sho dev" reports:
dka400.4.0.2000.0 DKA400 RRD46 0557
dra0.0.0.13.0 DRA0 6 member RAID 5
dra1.0.0.13.0 DRA1 1 member JBOD
dra2.0.0.13.0 DRA2 1 member JBOD
dva0.0.0.1000.0 DVA0
ewa0.0.0.12.0 EWA0 00-00-F8-05-B4-DE
pka0.7.0.2000.0 PKA0 SCSI BUS ID 7 2.10
Booting from the CD reports:
re0 at xcr0 unit 0 (unit status = ONLINE, raid level=5)
re1 at xcr0 unit 1 (unit status = ONLINE, raid level=JBOD)
re2 at xcr0 unit 2 (unit status = ONLINE, raid level=JBOD)
Isn't the "0" disk always the internal disk? Does this mean the two
RZ28's are part of the RAID-5? Don't I want:
re0 at xcr0 unit 0 (unit status = ONLINE, raid level=JBOD)
re1 at xcr0 unit 1 (unit status = ONLINE, raid level=JBOD)
re2 at xcr0 unit 2 (unit status = ONLINE, raid level=5)
and if so, _how_ do I get it? How do I know what disks are what?
Or do re0, re1, re2 not correlate like this because of RAID and I can
just go ahead and load UNIX on re1 and mirror re2?
Sorry to ask such basic questions, but I've been RTFM-ing and am
thoroughly confused. Could some kind souls _please_ enlighten me enough
to get me started? Many XOXOXO to those who do, or I'll kiss the cat
(cringe) when (if) I get home.
Received on Tue Aug 19 1997 - 22:20:59 NZST