1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, I have the situaiton in which primary boot disk has bad sectors in Solaris 9. The other hard disk is mirrored using Solstice DiskSuite 4.2. I can reboot system with the other disk. My question is, when I replaced the boot disk with a new one, how can I create meta db and finally make it... (2 Replies)

2. Solaris

Hi, We had a disk go bad in this SunFire 280R, running Solaris 8 - Generic_117350-46. We replaced the disk and partitioned it. We metadetached all the metadevices but for some reason the new disk is showing up in the metadb as Concat/Stripe and it won't let us re-sync the mirror. We are not... (2 Replies)

3. Solaris

The following is the summarry:- 1) Four disks in server ie (c1t0d0. c1t1d0, c1t2d0, c1t3d0). c1t2d0 is the disk to be replaced. c1t0d0 and c1t2d0 are mirrors. c1t1d0 and c1t3d0 are mirrors. Metadb to be deleted is in c1t2d0s7 a) Mirror d35 has 2 submirrors d38 and d39 d38 is a stripe... (0 Replies)

4. AIX

Hi Admins, I am new into aix.I was surfing aix pages and reading how to replace failed mirror disks.I read in one of the posts that we have to reboot the server to replace the disk. actually i was a HPUX admin and many times replaced root mirror disk online.Ofcourse it was hot swappable. ... (2 Replies)

5. AIX

First a little background: I'm working with an AIX 6.1 TL05 running two mirrored SAS disks (rootvg) and four SSDs (appvg) All four SSDs belong to appvg and are setup to mirror as follows: hdisk4 --> hdisk6 (containing application fs) hdisk5 --> hdisk7 (containing database fs) A few days... (1 Reply)

6. Solaris

I have a v480 with a mirrored boot disk c1t0 and c1t1. The drives themselves don't show a failure but the mirror's need maintenance. This is my plan for replacing the drive. I would love feedback to point out what I"m missing or where my steps are incorrect. Two things I believe I'm... (3 Replies)

7. Solaris

Hi All BAsed on the below I would like to verifu two things (1) The udnerlying mirroris for '/mnt' na dit onlcy contaisne 1 sub-mirror, with one sliceon is one disk and hence, data loss on the mount point (the mount point, '/mnt' is backed up) (2) the Procedure for renewal # df -kh /mnt... (2 Replies)

8. Solaris

Hi Please can you help me on replacing or removing a faulty disk drive on a SUN NETRA X4250server with 4 internal drives only. the format comand show me the following: format Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t0d0 <drive type unknown> ... (9 Replies)