Installing Optional Components
Adding or Removing Disk Drives
The IA/IA2 blade (base I/O blade) within the IRU supports the system boot functions and contains one or two
For information on removing or replacing disk drives in optional mass storage enclosures, see the hardware document supplied with the storage option.
Reconfigure the System Disk Drive(s) for RAID 1
System disk drive(s) ordered starting in March 2007 may come configured as either a
The type of disk configuration is ordered by the customer and configured at the SGI factory. If a requirement exits to reconfigure the system disk(s), use the following information to make the changes needed. The lsiutil configuration software is the only supported methodology for modifying the disks at the time this document was published. Use of other software interfaces has not been verified and cannot be supported.
Important: The example process that follows presumes there are two disks identical in size and speed installed in your Altix system IA2 (base I/O) blade. Also, note that this example of
The lsiutil file (efi version) resides at /boot/efi
Launch the configuration utility with the command:
fs0:\> lsiutil64.efi
You should see an interactive interface similar to the following:
LSI Logic MPT Configuration Utility, Version 1.xx, November 7, 200X 1 MPT Port found
Port Name | Chip Vendor/Type/Rev | MPT Rev | Firmware Rev IOC | |
1. 01/00/01/0 | LSI Logic SAS1068 B0 | 105 | 01100000 | 0 |
The SAS1068 is the chip that controls the device that the lsiutil utility was loaded from.
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