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List:       veritas-vx
Subject:    Re: [Veritas-vx] Problem while adding new drives
From:       "Avijit Pathania" <apathan () globalcrossing ! com>
Date:       2001-05-23 19:59:14
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A big thanks to folks for providing inputs to this problem.

I am happy to say that the problem of Veritas not initializing the new
drives has been fixed. After we added the drives I did not label them
running the format command. That is why even though the OS and Veritas were
seeing the new drives, they failed to get initialized.

>From what I saw in the log files and the error message codes it all pointed
to DMP. All that was required was to label them and then initialize them
using vxdisk -f init <device name>.

Thanks again for all your help.

Avi


----- Original Message -----
From: "Avijit Pathania" <apathan@globalcrossing.com>
To: <ed.guenther@us.pwcglobal.com>; <doug@eng.auburn.edu>
Cc: <Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Problem while adding new drives


> The new device entries were added to the /kernel/drv/atf.conf
automatically
> by the atf_configure command. We see the new devices under format and
under
> vxdiskadm. We are just not able to initiallise them.
>
> From the error messages that we got it looks like the device numbers have
> been marked disabled in the DMP database. I was quite certain that we were
> not using DMP, but it was present when I did modinfo for dmp.
>
> So now I am trying to find a way to disable dmp (without a reboot) or to
> mark the devices enable in the DMP database.
>
> Avi
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ed.guenther@us.pwcglobal.com>
> To: <doug@eng.auburn.edu>
> Cc: <apathan@globalcrossing.com>; <Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu>
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Problem while adding new drives
>
>
> >
> > Don't you have to add more lines to /kernel/drv/sd.conf?
> >
> > I forget the exact format but they look something like:
> >
> >
> > name="sd" class="scsi"
> >         target=2 lun=5;
> >
> > -Ed.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Doug Hughes <doug@eng.auburn.edu>@mailman.eng.auburn.edu on 05/20/2001
> > 03:07:44 PM
> >
> > Sent by:  veritas-vx-admin@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> >
> > To:   Avijit Pathania <apathan@globalcrossing.com>
> > cc:   Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > Subject:  Re: [Veritas-vx] Problem while adding new drives
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 20 May 2001, Avijit Pathania wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > We recently increased the number of drives in our Clarion 5700 by
40x9Gb
> > drives. These drives were pulled out from another Clarion 5700 which had
> > been decommissioned.
> > >
> > > The migration went without any problems. We saw the drives under
> "format"
> > after we ran "drvconfig" and "disks". We did not reboot the machine
since
> > rebooting is not an option.
> > >
> > > Veritas (vxdisk list) sees the drives as well, but is not able to
> > initialize them. While trying to add a drive (using either the GUI or
> > vxdiskadm) I get an error saying the device path is incorrect. I also
see
> > the following in /var/adm/messages
> >
> > did you run vxdctl enable?
> >      Doug (doug@gblx.net ;)
> >
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