A1000 & Solaris Volume Manager problem with Concat/Stripe

From: henrik (henrik_at_stat.tamu.edu)
Date: 09/26/05 

Date: 26 Sep 2005 14:02:10 -0700

    Hello,
I have an A1000 (under Solaris 9). I used RM6 to create an 11 disk
RAID5 array - one LUN/logical drive. I then used Solaris Volume
Manager to create a single Concat/Stripe (d4) on the LUN. I then
created multiple soft partitions on top of the Concat/Stripe (d40, d41,
etc). I create my file systems on top of the soft partitions. I wanted
the flexibility to create more file systems and to grow them as need
be. Not sure this was the best way, but now my problem is that suddenly
(after working for a while) my Concat/Stripe says it is "State:
Unavailable" even though all the Soft Partitions on top of the
Concat/Strip say they are "State: OK". I cannot mount the soft
partition (no suprise since the underlying Concat/Stripe is not
available). They thing is, there is nothing wrong (that I can tell)
with the A1000 LUN on top of with the Concat/Strip was placed. Is there
some way to fix or diagnose this better? Can I recover the soft
partitions and or make the Concat/Strip "Available"? I tried playing
with 'metarecover' with no success.

Sincerely,

   - Henrik