Device Type...................................... DISK
Disk Capacity.................................... 36.4 GB
Device Status.................................... UNASSIGNED
Device Vendor ID................................. HP
Device Product ID................................ DG036A8B53
Device Serial Number............................. 3LC01ZTE00008524EDPX
Device Firmware Version.......................... HPD4
---- SAS/SATA DEVICE 2I:1:13:0x500000e01118a7a2 [DISK] -----------------------
Connector Location............................... internal
Connector........................................ 2I
Enclosure........................................ 1
Bay.............................................. 13
WWID............................................. 0x500000e01118a7a2
Device Type...................................... DISK
Disk Capacity.................................... 36.4 GB
Device Status.................................... UNASSIGNED
Device Vendor ID................................. HP
Device Product ID................................ DG036A8B5B
Device Serial Number............................. B2G2P55001W50520
Device Firmware Version.......................... HPD4
******************************************************************************
**** End of SAUTIL Output ****
******************************************************************************
In this example, the
SAS/SATA DEVICE SUMMARY
lists the Connector/Enclosure/Bay for each
physical disk attached to the Smart Array Controller. The information provided for each of the
physical disks, following the
SAS/SATA DEVICE SUMMARY
, indicates that all physical disks have
firmware version
HPD4
installed except for
1I:1:9
, which has version
HPD3
.
Configuring a Smart Array controller as a boot device
This section describes the additional steps you must follow to enable your system to boot from
logical drives on a Smart Array Series Controller.
NOTE:
To create logical drives, use ORCA. See
.
Planning to install HP-UX on a logical drive
On each Smart Array Controller, you can set up any number of its logical drives as boot devices.
For example, if you have two controllers in a system, and each controller has three logical drives
configured on it, you can set up two logical drives on one controller as boot devices and all three
logical drives on the other controller as boot devices, giving you a total of five boot devices.
Before a Smart Array Controller can be set up as a boot device, the following dependencies must
be met:
•
You must have the correct version of the product dependent code (PDC) or system firmware
installed. For information on the firmware versions needed for each of the supported HP-UX
systems, see the , see the HP Smart Array RAID Controllers Support Matrix at http://
www.hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs. If you do not have the correct PDC or system firmware
version, contact your HP representative.
•
You must have the recommended version of the Smart Array controller firmware installed. For
information, see
“Verifying and updating controller firmware offline” (page 26)
.
•
HP strongly recommends having an alternate boot device available.
Before you set up a Smart Array Controller as a boot device, consider the following:
•
When you use a Smart Array logical drive as a boot device running HP-UX, you are limited
in the configuration tasks you can perform with the
saconfig
configuration utility. The
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