Hi guys,

I hope somebody here can help me with DiskSuite issue in Solaris.

I have an Old E4000 with Disk Array and yesterday it crashed and now I can't access the data in Disk Array. That Disk Array is configured as RAID 5 and now the system won't even mount it.

I did the following step to rebuild it .. but so far .. no luck.


metaclear

metainit d0 -r c1t0d0s1 c1t0d1s1 c1t0d2s1 c1t0d3s1 c1t0d4s1 c1t1d0s1 c1t1d1s1 c1t1d2s1 c1t1d3s1 c1t1d4s1 c1t2d0s1 c1t2d1s1 c1t2d2s1 c1t2d3s1 c1t2d4s1 c1t3d0s1 c1t3d1s1 c1t3d2s1 c1t3d3s1 c1t3d4s1 c1t4d0s1 c1t4d1s1 c1t4d2s1 c1t4d3s1 c1t4d4s1 c1t5d0s1 c1t5d1s1 c1t5d2s1 c1t5d3s1 c1t5d4s1 -k -i 128b

and I got this error all the time

metainit: dev1: /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1: No such device or address


I've replaced the HD more than twice even replace the Disk Array and use the same HDs .. still no luck

I'm stuck .. can anybody help ?


Cheers,

I guess .. no Solaris person here .. :(

Could be that the backplane failed for that drive. What type of array are you running? Try doing a fsck on the raw device and now the md one also. Email me at support@wwm.net and I can see what I can do for you.

The path to inst file may be hosed up. Take a look to and see if it really is there in /dev/dsk & /dev/rdsk.
Try a boot -r or reboot --r ( two dashes) if you are remote.
probe-scsi-all at the ok prompt will tell you if it's seeing anything on that device.

If you are rebuilding the whole thing from scratch anyway just find out what device files it is using and use those. dmesg should list them.

If this doesn't at least point you in the right direction PM or IM.

Do a probe scsi from OpenBoot and see what it says.

David

Thanks to all that replied,

I finally got everything fixed .. I forgot to run format to see what I have. I thought everything are the same as the original, but .. I was wrong. After a bad fiber channel card got replaced .. all numbering system got changed .. :)

So .. everything fixed ... thanks again

:D