Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4100, Примечания к продукту

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6 Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 Servers Product Notes • November 2006
LSI Firmware Issues
RAID Volume Requires 64 Mbytes of
Unpartitioned HDD Space for Metadata (6312581)
To create a RAID volume, the firmware and BIOS must write metadata at the end of
the HDD. At least 64 Mbytes of unpartitioned hard-disk space are required.
Workaround
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In servers shipped with the preinstalled Solaris 10 1/06 OS, the preinstall image
includes more than 64 Mbytes of unpartitioned hard disk space for metadata. No
further action is required.
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In servers shipped with the preinstalled Solaris 10 3/05 OS, you must partition
the disk space from within the Solaris OS before you use the LSI Configuration
Utility to create RAID volumes. Refer to your Solaris OS documentation for
instructions.
RAID 1 Volume Cannot Be Created, Partition
Warnings Displayed (6310074)
When using the LSI BIOS Configuration Utility, you might see the following
warning when trying to create a RAID volume by migrating existing data:
The selected disk contains partitions that may not be preserved
when creating an array. This data may be lost when the array is
created! If you would still like to use this disk in an array,
choose the Erase Disk option on the previous menu by pressing
Delete (D)
If you choose the Erase Disk option as suggested in the warning, the RAID volume
will still not be created and the warning will be displayed again.
Analysis
The warning is because the utility does not recognize the new Solaris x86 OS disk
partition type.