[HPADM] Mediainit verification oddity

From: Jeff Cleverley (jeff_cleverley_at_agilent.com)
Date: 04/13/05

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    Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:05:06 -0600
To: hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl

    Greetings,

    I have a K460 running 11.00 that had a file system corrupt. We replaced
    a couple of disks and decided to mediainit all drives going into the new
    file system. I noticed that the drives on one bus (c0) showed they
    verified the disks while the drives on the other bus (c2) didn't.
    Below is the output of the mediainit commands.

    > mediainit -v /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0
    mediainit: initialization process starting
    mediainit: locking SCSI device
    mediainit: initializing media
    mediainit: verifying media
    mediainit: initialization process completed

    > mediainit -v /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0
    mediainit: initialization process starting
    mediainit: locking SCSI device
    mediainit: initializing media
    mediainit: initialization process completed

    As you can see, the second one didn't show the verifying media line.
    This was the same for all disks on the c2 interface while all disks on
    the c0 did show it. The disks are identical HP labeled Seagate drives.
    The interfaces are standard K class core and expansion i/o interfaces.

    We're assuming the disks are good and mirroring the file system, but any
    explanations or help on this would be nice.

    Thanks,

    Jeff 

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