Today at work we recieved two Infortrend SCSI\/SATA RAID arrays. They came with no documentation other than a CDROM and a quick install guide.<\/p>\n
OK, I thought, they’ll have the documentation on the CD as many things do these days (including some laptops whos manuals on the CD start by saying “Warning: Before you unpack the computer…”) so I popped it into Euclid’s DVD-ROM drive.<\/p>\n
I found three PDF files on there along with installation programs, so I took a look at the PDFs. One was for the advertising blurb, another for the quick install guide and the last was the packing list!<\/p>\n
Right, this is going nowhere fast. I’ll try installing the software on Euclid before I try on the server system I’m going to be putting these devices on. After all the server is in use at the moment serving other disks and I don’t want to disturb it. Not only this but I need to find out how to configure the boxes to use other SCSI IDs before I fit them. And maybe, once the software’s installed there might actually be some documentation.<\/p>\n
So, I run the install script for Solaris. It starts a JAVA install program and I follow the instructions…<\/p>\n
At the end of the install my window manager crashes and other things start going loopy. I manage to log out and get back in with a working X session only to discover that init is taking 100% CPU, so I warn everyone and do a reboot.<\/p>\n
The system doesn’t come up properly.. It just constantly looping between starting up the ethernet interface, fsck’ing \/, complaining that \/proc can’t be mounted and \/var\/run already is mounted and finally that the kernel doesn’t support overlapping swap partitions on c0t0d0s1. The system is hosed.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow I’m going to have to try to recover the machine by booting off CDROM otherwise I’m just going to have to rebuild the machine from scratch and hope that \/usr\/users hasn’t been wiped.<\/p>\n
Grrrrr!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today at work we recieved two Infortrend SCSI\/SATA RAID arrays. They came with no documentation other than a CDROM and a quick install guide. OK, I thought, they’ll have the documentation on the CD as many things do these days … Continue reading