I have a FAS960 filer and 3 DS14 MK2 drive shelves that I would like to get up and running, but so far I am having some trouble connecting to the unit in order to configure it. I don't have any of the original drives, but have ordered 4 X276A-R5 (300GB, 10k RPM FC) drives so that I can set up a RAID once I can get the filer configured. I also have a serial to USB cable and PuTTY, but so far I haven't been able to establish a connection to the filer through the serial to USB cable. I don't know much about PuTTY or Telnet, but my brother does know a little bit and is helping me here and there. As I understand it, PuTTY should give me a command prompt once I am able to connect, and I haven't gotten that yet. I also have a serial cable with a serial to RJ45 adapter that came with the unit, so if I need to use that in place of the serial to USB cable, that's easy enough to do. The settings we have been using in PuTTY are as follows:
Com3 (which is what the serial to USB cable shows as in Device Manager)
Speed (baud) 9600
Data bits 8
Stop bits 1
Parity None
Flow control None
Based on what is displayed on the LCD screen as it boots, I'm guessing that it is booting normally, at least to a point. Below is the text that is displayed as it boots (a couple spots might be slightly inaccurate, as a few things flash across the screen fairly quickly):
Testing CPU
Testing clock
Testing pc-card
Checking sensors
Probing devices at /pci4/pci@7/pci6/fcal@3
Set boot alias
Testing 512MB
2 to 64MB (tests up to 512MB in 64MB increments)
kernel¥primary.krn
Starting
There are also 3 LED's that will come on either blinking or solid periodically as it is booting, but I haven't paid a lot of attention to them so far. It will also display "Entering firmware..." if I push the small button on the front (originally thought it was a hard reset button) when "Starting" is displayed, but it will not proceed from "Entering firmware..." even after several hours of waiting. I don't believe it proceeds from "Starting" either, but I haven't let it sit for an extended time to be sure that it doesn't proceed after a half hour or something like that.
If anyone has any tips or advice on how to connect to the filer and do initial configuration, I would greatly appreciate it. As far as info about the filer, I know what the MAC address is, and I know what the machine name could be (not guaranteed though), and I can assign it a specific IP address through DHCP, but I'm guessing that it is intended to use a static IP address as standard practice, and may not even have the option of using DHCP. So in short, the first things I will likely need to configure are the machine name and the IP address.
Thanks in advance for the help.
