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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Solaris 8 disk/mirroring issue Post 88765 by ghuber on Tuesday 8th of November 2005 01:50:05 PM
Old 11-08-2005
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Originally Posted by RTM
M p unknown unknown /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s4 << bad disk
M p unknown unknown /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s4 << bad disk

Note in your metadb - looks like someone added to the metadb but never rebooted - that's usually why you get the unknown in the status although it's possible you are also getting it because the disks are bad. The good thing is that there are so many copies of the metadb - so you can replace the bad disks without no worry about losing anything.

As far as the bad disk, get the replacement disk drives and you can use the metareplace command. Or you can use metadetach and metaclear to remove them from the metastat and replace the drives, format, and readd them. You can hot swap the drives so you should not need any down time.

Also, insure that the boot device is c1t0d0s0 and not c1t1d0s0. You don't want to hot swap or remove the drive you are booted off of (inital boot will be off one drive and then the mirrors come into play). Just check the output of eeprom and look for boot-device - hopefully it isn't simply "disk:a" but gives you the output that you would be able to tell which drive it really is. If not, then you can play it safe and reboot into single user to do the drive replacements. More info can be found in this thread
The boot disk looks like it refers to the c1t0d0 disk according to eeprom. It doesn't indicate the slice.

I think that error occured because of an incorrect powerdown... But I'm not sure because I just got a hold of this box. As I said the drive light indicators on the outside of the box aren't indicating any faults. On the negative side, format does not list c1t3d0, but it does list c1t1d0 as well as all other drives.

Is there any way to tell if the disk is definetely bad? The box was recently moved, so I am concerned the drives may have been rattled around a bit, maybe even come unseated. I was thinking of powering down, reseating all the drives, then booting and running touch /reconfigure. If the drive was previously detected in the system would I even need to do that for it to come back online?

Thanks!
 

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fribidi_set_mirroring(3)					Programmer's Manual					  fribidi_set_mirroring(3)

NAME
fribidi_set_mirroring - set mirroring on or off SYNOPSIS
#include <fribidi.h> fribidi_boolean fribidi_set_mirroring(fribidi_boolean state); PARAMETERS
fribidi_boolean state New state to set. DESCRIPTION
This function is used to turn character mirroring on or off. Character mirroring is the act of replacing a mirrorable glyph (character), eg. Left paranthesis, with the matching glyph, eg. Right paranthesis, in a right-to-left resolved context. If your rendering engine does mirroring itself, you may want to turn it off here. This flag is on by default. This function is deprecated and only used with other deprecated functions. RETURNS
The new mirroring status. SEE ALSO
fribidi_charset_to_unicode(3), fribidi_unicode_to_charset(3), fribidi_parse_charset(3), fribidi_shape_arabic(3), fribidi_get_par_direc- tion(3), fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels(3), fribidi_reorder_line(3), fribidi_get_bidi_type(3), fribidi_get_bidi_types(3), fribidi_get_bidi_type_name(3), fribidi_debug_status(3), fribidi_mirroring_status(3), fribidi_reorder_nsm_status(3), fribidi_set_reorder_nsm(3), fribidi_log2vis_get_embedding_levels(3), fribidi_get_type(3), fribidi_get_type_internal(3), fribidi_remove_bidi_marks(3), fribidi_log2vis(3), fribidi_join_arabic(3), fribidi_get_joining_type(3), fribidi_get_joining_types(3), fribidi_get_joining_type_name(3), fribidi_get_mirror_char(3), fribidi_shape_mirroring(3), fribidi_shape(3) GNU FriBidi 0.19.2 30 January 2006 fribidi_set_mirroring(3)
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