04-15-2007
Ultra 60 strange disk problems
Hello,
I just bought a nice ultra 60 with 2x36gb scsi disks (fujitsu MAJ3364MC, sun partnr 540-4521).
If i do a probe-scsi-all in obp the disk anounces itself as SUN36G.
In a booted system however, I can only use 9 gb and the disk is seen in format as 9.0 gb.
My own wild uneducated guess: As the system is about 10 years old, it was probably sold with 9 gb disks. Those disks might have failed in the past and replaced with 36gb disks with 9gb firmware.....
I have spectrum acces to sunsolve, but i've not been able to find anything related to this issue, neither was I able to find a firmware upgrade for this type of disk.
Thanks if anyone can help me to have a clue
Greets
Erwin
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volreattach
volreattach(8) System Manager's Manual volreattach(8)
NAME
volreattach - Reattaches disk drives that have once again become accessible
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/volreattach [-rb] [accessname...]
/usr/sbin/volreattach -c accessname
OPTIONS
The volreattach utility has the following options: Calls the volrecover utility to attempt to recover stale plexes of any volumes on the
failed disk. Performs the reattach operation in the background. Checks whether a reattach is possible. No operation is performed, but the
name of the disk group and disk media name at which the disk can be reattached is displayed.
DESCRIPTION
The volreattach utility attempts to reattach disks using the same disk group and media names they had before detachment.
This operation may be necessary if a disk has a transient failure, or if some disk drivers are unloaded or unloadable when the Logical
Storage Manager is started, causing disks to enter the failed state.
If the problem is fixed, the volreattach command can be used to reattach the disks without plexes being flagged as stale, as long as the
reattach happens before any volumes on the disk are started.
The volreattach command is called from the voldiskadm menus as part of disk recovery.
The volreattach utility tries to find a disk with a disk group and disk ID matching that of the disk(s) being reattached. If the matching
disk is found, the reattach operation may still fail if the original cause (or some other cause) for the disk failure still exists.
EXIT CODES
A zero exit status is returned if it is possible to perform a reattach. Otherwise, non-zero is returned.
SEE ALSO
volintro(8), voldiskadm(8), volrecover(8)
volreattach(8)