Re: Lost volume group on aix 4.3.3

From: Doug Freyburger (dfreybur_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/02/04


Date: 2 Aug 2004 10:03:16 -0700

pinslayer22@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> After a weekly reboot of the server we received the following error:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> LABEL: SCSI_ERR10
> IDENTIFIER: 0BA49C99
>
> Date/Time: Sun Aug 1 01:05:54
> Sequence Number: 39621
> Machine Id: 00078F1F4C00
> Node Id: xxxxxxxx
> Class: H
> Type: TEMP
> Resource Name: scsi1
> Resource Class: adapter
> Resource Type: sym896
> Location: 10-88
>
> Description
> SCSI BUS ERROR
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> No immediate cause for the error was found and the server was rebooted
> again. The original hdisk2 was flagged as "defined" and a new hdisk4
> was added. The location and serial numbers for hdisk2 and hdisk4 are
> the same. hdisk4 is flagged as available. Now I cannot mount a
> filesystem that was contained on the volume group on hdisk2.

importvg hdisk4

It should restore the logical volumes that were on hdisk2 to hdisk4.

> I am no longer seeing the scsi error in the error and it appears that
> the physical drive is fine.

The problem will occur again. Order a replacement drive before it
fails permanently. Schedule an outage to move the data and replace
the drive that has already failed. Using importvg is only a
stopgap until then.



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