Re: Issues with E3500 running DiskSuite 4.2.1

From: Anthony Mandic (oy_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/30/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 23:07:35 +1000

Christopher Meiklejohn wrote:
>
> I have a E3500 here running DiskSuite 4.2.1. We have a mirror (d1) composed
> of submirrors (d11 and d10, each a stripe on a FC-AL disk).
>
> At one point, one of the disks failed, (submirror d11 ) and went into
> "Needs Maintanance". We replaced the failed
> disk, and put a new one in, the new disk showed up and we ran metareplace to
> sync the mirror up back up. It took about 1 hour.

        That's a little slow for FC-AL disks.

> On the next system reboot the machine came up and the d11 submirror was back
> to needing maintenance. This happens every system reboot.
>
> Someone said that the luxadm command should have been used to remove the
> disk, which it wasn't.

        Well, was it or wasn't it? Your next paragraph says it was.

> Luxadm stop and remove_device were used to stop the disk and remove it. We
> verified that the disk no longer showed up in 'format'. It did not.
> Luxadm insert was then used, and the new disk inserted,
> luxadm insert then exited with the "no new device enclousures found"
> message, but when 'format' was run the disk showed up.

        It might be the old disk. Fiberchannel disks each have a unique
        WWN so you need to reconfigure. The luxadm command should handle
        this but you can also run devfsadm manually.

> At this point everytime the system is rebooted, the submirror comes up in
> 'Needs Maintainence'.
>
> I was just wondering if anyone else has had this issue with DiskSuite
> before?

        No, if its not the WWN problem check if you have SDS patched.

-am © 2003

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