Finding RAID device on an Alpha

k564738_at_yahoo.com
Date: 05/22/03


Date: 22 May 2003 13:51:52 -0700

I have a Compaq TRU-64 Alpha box that seems to have a six-drive RAID
physically installed, but not accessible at the moment. The following
is the output of a number of diagnostics, and I was hoping that
someone knowledgable could give me some pointers on finding the device
name(s) of the drives, and how I might then best use mkfdmn, mkfset,
etc. to put them into service. Many thanks.

Diagnostic commands issued below:
1) /usr/sbin/disklabel
2) /sbin/hwmgr -view devices
3) ls -l /dev/disk/
4) /sbin/showfsets root_domain
5) /sbin/showfsets usr_domain
6) /sbin/showfsets tmp
7) /sbin/advfs/advscan -a
8) /sbin/advfs/advscan -ag

1) # /usr/sbin/disklabel
# /dev/rdisk/dsk0c:
type: SCSI
disk: BD018635C4
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 254
tracks/cylinder: 20
sectors/cylinder: 5080
cylinders: 7001
sectors/unit: 35565080
rpm: 10025
interleave: 1
trackskew: 84
cylinderskew: 74
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] #
NOTE: values not exact
  a: 524288 0 AdvFS # (Cyl. 0
- 103*)
  b: 6291456 524288 swap # (Cyl.
103*- 1341*)
  c: 35565080 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl.
0 - 7000)
  d: 0 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl.
0 - -1)
  e: 536576 12138665 AdvFS # (Cyl.
2389*- 2495*)
  f: 0 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl.
0 - -1)
  g: 5242880 6815744 AdvFS # (Cyl.
1341*- 2373*)
  h: 23506456 12058624 unused 0 0 # (Cyl.
2373*- 7000)

2) # /sbin/hwmgr -view devices

 HWID: Device Name Mfg Model Location
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    4: /dev/kevm
   42: /dev/disk/floppy0c 3.5in floppy fdi0-unit-0
   53: /dev/disk/dsk0c COMPAQ BD018635C4
bus-0-targ-0-lun-0
   54: /dev/disk/dsk1c COMPAQ BD018635C4
bus-0-targ-1-lun-0
   55: /dev/disk/dsk2c COMPAQ BD018635C4
bus-0-targ-2-lun-0
   56: /dev/disk/dsk3c COMPAQ BD018635C4
bus-0-targ-3-lun-0
   57: /dev/disk/cdrom0c COMPAQ CD-224E
bus-1-targ-0-lun-0

3) # ls -l /dev/disk/
total 0
brw------- 1 root system 19, 81 Dec 15 2000 cdrom0a
brw------- 1 root system 19, 85 Dec 15 2000 cdrom0c
brw------- 1 root system 19, 17 Dec 15 2000 dsk0a
brw------- 1 root system 19, 19 May 21 12:58 dsk0b
brw------- 1 root system 19, 21 Dec 15 2000 dsk0c
brw------- 1 root system 19, 23 Dec 15 2000 dsk0d
brw------- 1 root system 19, 25 Dec 15 2000 dsk0e
brw------- 1 root system 19, 27 Dec 15 2000 dsk0f
brw------- 1 root system 19, 29 Dec 15 2000 dsk0g
brw------- 1 root system 19, 31 Dec 15 2000 dsk0h
brw------- 1 root system 19, 33 Dec 15 2000 dsk1a
brw------- 1 root system 19, 35 Dec 15 2000 dsk1b
brw------- 1 root system 19, 37 Dec 15 2000 dsk1c
brw------- 1 root system 19, 39 Dec 15 2000 dsk1d
brw------- 1 root system 19, 41 Dec 15 2000 dsk1e
brw------- 1 root system 19, 43 Dec 15 2000 dsk1f
brw------- 1 root system 19, 45 Dec 15 2000 dsk1g
brw------- 1 root system 19, 47 Dec 15 2000 dsk1h
brw------- 1 root system 19, 49 Dec 15 2000 dsk2a
brw------- 1 root system 19, 51 Dec 15 2000 dsk2b
brw------- 1 root system 19, 53 Dec 15 2000 dsk2c
brw------- 1 root system 19, 55 Dec 15 2000 dsk2d
brw------- 1 root system 19, 57 Dec 15 2000 dsk2e
brw------- 1 root system 19, 59 Dec 15 2000 dsk2f
brw------- 1 root system 19, 61 Dec 15 2000 dsk2g
brw------- 1 root system 19, 63 Dec 15 2000 dsk2h
brw------- 1 root system 19, 65 Dec 15 2000 dsk3a
brw------- 1 root system 19, 67 Dec 15 2000 dsk3b
brw------- 1 root system 19, 69 Dec 15 2000 dsk3c
brw------- 1 root system 19, 71 Dec 15 2000 dsk3d
brw------- 1 root system 19, 73 Dec 15 2000 dsk3e
brw------- 1 root system 19, 75 Dec 15 2000 dsk3f
brw------- 1 root system 19, 77 Dec 15 2000 dsk3g
brw------- 1 root system 19, 79 Dec 15 2000 dsk3h
brw-rw-rw- 1 root system 19, 1 Dec 15 2000 floppy0a
brw-rw-rw- 1 root system 19, 5 Dec 15 2000 floppy0c

4) # /sbin/showfsets root_domain
root
        Id : 3a3ad19e.0003c490.1.8001
        Files : 2742, SLim= 0, HLim= 0
        Blocks (512) : 340442, SLim= 0, HLim= 0
        Quota Status : user=off group=off

5) # /sbin/showfsets usr_domain
usr
        Id : 3a3ad19e.0009a680.1.8001
        Files : 39807, SLim= 0, HLim= 0
        Blocks (512) : 4993848, SLim= 0, HLim= 0
        Quota Status : user=off group=off

var
        Id : 3a3ad19e.0009a680.2.8001
        Files : 1902, SLim= 0, HLim= 0
        Blocks (512) : 189904, SLim= 0, HLim= 0
        Quota Status : user=off group=off

6) # /sbin/showfsets tmp
tmp_domain
        Id : 3a4c4fb8.00099e0a.1.8001
        Files : 0, SLim= 0, HLim= 0
        Blocks (512) : 0, SLim= 0, HLim= 0
        Quota Status : user=off group=off

7) # /sbin/advfs/advscan -a

Scanning devices /dev/rdisk/dsk0

Found domains:

root_domain
                Domain Id 3a3ad19e.0003c490
                Created Fri Dec 15 21:21:18 2000

                Domain volumes 1
                /etc/fdmns links 1

                Actual partitions found:
                                        dsk0a
tmp
                Domain Id 3a4c4fb8.00099e0a
                Created Fri Dec 29 03:47:52 2000

                Domain volumes 1
                /etc/fdmns links 1

                Actual partitions found:
                                        dsk0e
usr_domain
                Domain Id 3a3ad19e.0009a680
                Created Fri Dec 15 21:21:18 2000

                Domain volumes 1
                /etc/fdmns links 1

                Actual partitions found:
                                        dsk0g

8) # /sbin/advfs/advscan -ag

Scanning devices /dev/rdisk/dsk0

 Partition Domain Id

/dev/rdisk/dsk0a 3a3ad19e.0003c490 V4, mounted
                                        1 volume in domain

                Created Fri Dec 15 21:21:18 2000
                 Last mount Wed Dec 31 19:00:24 1969

/dev/rdisk/dsk0e 3a4c4fb8.00099e0a V4, dismounted
                                        1 volume in domain

                Created Fri Dec 29 03:47:52 2000
                 Last mount Thu May 22 13:41:41 2003

/dev/rdisk/dsk0g 3a3ad19e.0009a680 V4, mounted
                                        1 volume in domain

                Created Fri Dec 15 21:21:18 2000
                 Last mount Thu May 22 12:28:59 2003



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