CommandviewSDM

[Bill Rothanburg]

I've successfully done this in the past. Did you make sure that the drives are visible on the server? I beleive that Commandview SDM connects directly to the individual drives in a JBOD config.

If you are pretty sure the problem is Commandview SDM, you might try sg3utils, if you can build it on your system (or find binaries). I beleive there is a format utility in there that will also get the job done.

[Torsten.]

No idea why it still not works, do you have another server by chance? Maybe a windows host? Commandview is available for windows too.

[Miles Denison]

I can successfully see every disk when I issue an ioscan, yes.

I'll check out sg3utils - and If needbe I can purchase a win 2k3 supported hba and toss it in one of my dl380s (maybe my next step).

Just out of curiosity, if indeed I preform a fimware reflash, would that then make the disk appear as a 512 sector size instead of the (rather unnecessary in my opinon) 520? and at that point could I use the pvcreate and lvm successfully? Just a thought I had.

Thanks for the help,
Miles.