RHEL. ~joel
William Havey wrote: > What OS is this? If it's Solaris, use format -e to put an SMI (Sun Micro > Interface?) label on the disk. I have seen disks once used by Windows > having an EFI label which vxconfigd refuses to use. > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:38 PM, joel <j...@saldino.net > <mailto:j...@saldino.net>> wrote: > > I have replaced disks many of times in the situation of veritas I am > using but now I seem to have problems. Went though the same steps as > before running 'vxdiskadm' # 4 then 5. I also have to tell the scsi bus > to remove the device and I reinsert it with: > > echo "scsi remove-single-device 1 0 17 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi > echo "scsi add-single-device 1 0 17 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi > > So now I am at the point I have the new drive in, the OS can see it, I > can run fdisk on it but I can't get veritas to see/initialize it: > > > Select a disk device to enable [<disk>,list,q,?] sdi > > VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-531 Device sdi: online failed: > Disk is not usable > > > This disk device does not appear to be valid. The disk may not have > a valid or usuable partition table, the special device file for the > disk may be missing or invalid, or the device may be turned-off or > detached from the system. This disk will be ignored. > Output format: [Device_Name,Disk_Access_Name] > > [sdi,sdi] > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > > ~joel > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > <mailto:Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu> > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx > > _______________________________________________ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx
