Finally got this working. I ran: vxdisk rm sdi
I then ran fdisk and added a Sun label with the following: Disk /dev/sdi (Sun disk label): 4 heads, 706 sectors, 50768 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2824 * 512 bytes I then ran: vxdctl enable To rescan for any changes. I was then able to initialize the disk and then use it for replacement of the old one. Shew, I'll have to remember all this for next time. Thanks for all the help. ~joel joel wrote: > Still doesn't seem to want to let me add this back in. Wonder if a > fresh drive would be better or at least taking this one and inserting it > into another system to try and do a low level format/initialization. > > ~joel > > > Stuart Andrews wrote: >> Joel >> >> I noticed you had >> >> <SNIP> >> [r...@p07cd01 ~]# fdisk /dev/sdi >> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 17921843. >> <SNIP> >> This is rather large for cylinder count - looks like the VTOC is >> completely corrupted. Can we zero then re-write a valid one. >> >> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdi bs=512 count=1 >> >> Then go thru the process I emailed earlier - the new DOS then >> # vxdisk init sdi >> # vxdisksetup -i sdi >> >> You may be able to parted to dump / replace that of sda to sdi - if they >> are same geometry - then >> >> # vxdisk -f init sdi >> >> Stuart > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-vx maillist - 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
