Solaris

Last week our server went down. I narrowed it down the the hard drive. I received a new drive but I REALLY need some info off the old drive. I want to get the old drive up long enough to do a dd copy. Here's what I tried..............

After trying to freeze the old drive (wasn't spinning up) to no avail I did some reading and found that I may have a bad controller card. I had another bad drive laying around the office so I swapped cards.

I was able to boot.....partially.....i received:

/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s1 No such device or address
Can't open /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s1

I ran fsck -y but i received the Can't open /dev/rdsk/blah blah

when i do a probe-scsi-all it sees the disk

when i do a format it does see the disk

Help PLEASE......

I'm running Solaris 8......

Update..........

I booted from CDROM (solaris install disk) with boot cdrom -s command.
Using the format command identified the disk as c2t1d0.
I trying to find out how to change the boot from c1t1d0s0 to c2t1d0s0.
c2t1d0s0 is not in the /dev/(r)dsk/ directory
Any suggestions???

You can change the boot order in OBP from disk disk1 to disk1 disk (or whatever they're identified as in OBP).

You probably just need to have the drivers rebuilt. devfsadm should probably do that or you can touch /reconfigure or reboot -- -r or from OBP, boot -r.

Carl

I tried devfsadm and got the following..........
devfsadm: mkdir failed for /dev 0x1ed: Read-only file system
devfsadm: open failed for /dev/.devfsadm_dev. lock: Read-only file system

In fact, I'm getting Read-only file system on just about everything I try.

hi guy, i think the boot block of the file system is corrupted. If u have a mirrored disk then you can retrive it using the 'dd' command. And pls be carefull coz any syntax err can corrupt both disks

SYNTAX:

# dd if=<Give path of mirror file> of=<give path of ur corrupted disk> blocks=32

hope it works, Bye