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Old 08-16-2010
stepping through newfs
On a RAID-5 solaris 9 server, we replaced a bad disk.

Upon boot up, a mount point failed:
vxvm:vxvol: ERROR: Volume IQ_Staging is not startable; some subdisks are
unusable and the parity is stale

With Sun tech support, we tried vxvol start and vxvol resync, but it remained detached. An fstype on IQ_Staging came back bad. Sun said I need to recreate the filesystem.

I believe I missed an ensuing step.

I used the format command to label the new disk, but got this error when I used the newfs command:
# newfs /dev/vx/rdsk/rootdg/IQ_Staging
newfs: construct a new file system /dev/vx/rdsk/rootdg/IQ_Staging: (y/n)? y
read error on sector 622321663: No such device or address
#

Did I miss something?
# 2  
Old 08-16-2010
Seems to be an issue with disk. Can you make smaller size file system or maybe you can do calculation and give the extend before the sector where you are getting the read error
# 3  
Old 08-17-2010
Can you list the steps you performed, once a volume is created successfully there shouldn't be any issues.
# 4  
Old 08-17-2010
The steps after seeing the bootup error, after trying vxvol restart and resync, and seeing that the fstype showed problems? Just this:
Format:
Selected Disk 2.
Select Label.
exit out.
Then tried the newfs command above.

I have since used the vxvol with 2 added switches (-o and bg): vxvol -o bg -f start, which appears to be working. I was able to use the newfs command afterwards and it is syncing the drive now.

I hope this gets me out of the woods. If it is successful, I just need to mount the drive.
Thanks for the follow-up.
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