[SunHELP] SDS Mirroring on a Sun Blade 100

[Michael Karl]

Thank you very much, Magnus.

But one question: Must I deinstall SDS, run the utility and reinstall SDS ?

best regards 

Michael

> Von: Magnus Abrante <magnus.abrante at sweden.sun.com>
> Antworten an: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Datum: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:19:50 +0200
> An: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Betreff: Re: [SunHELP] SDS Mirroring on a Sun Blade 100
> 
> 
> Hi Vinay, Michael.
> 
> This is a known problem, it happens if you have two disks with the same
> device ID.
> 
> Disksuite uses the disks device ID's, and if both disks have the same
> ID disksuite will belive that its the same disk, which causes the error
> messages below.
> 
> There is a small utility which changes the deviceid of a disk, i'll
> dig it up and send it you when i find it.
> 
> best regards,
> 
> //Magnus Abrante
> /* This is my opinion and not the one of my employer */
> 
> 
>> Hi Vinay,
>> 
>> it seems that's the same problem as discribed by me
>> 
>> "SDS 4.2.1 problem ... not solved ...".
>> 
>> No answer till now.
>> 
>> I'm wondering about this.
>> 
>> Are we the only people around this sun-world, who have this SDS-problem?
>> 
>> My configuration works with SDS 4.1.x but not in 4.2.1 with Solaris 8.
>> 
>> Michael 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Von: Vinay Bharel <vinay at bharel.com>
>>> Antworten an: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>>> Datum: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:41:28 -0400 (EDT)
>>> An: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>>> Betreff: [SunHELP] SDS Mirroring on a Sun Blade 100
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I am trying to mirror two identical Seagate drives on a Sun Blade
>>> 100 using DiskSuite 4.2.1. Both drives are on seperate IDE channels.
>>> 
>>> I am getting the following error:
>>> 
>>> metainit: blade: c0t2d0s0: overlaps with device in metadevice state database
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know how to fix this?
>>> 
>>> TIA
>>> 
>>> # format
>>> Searching for disks...done
>>> 
>>> 
>>> AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
>>> 0. c0t0d0 <ST315320A cyl 29649 alt 2 hd 16 sec 63>
>>> /pci at 1f,0/ide at d/dad at 0,0
>>> 1. c0t2d0 <ST315320A cyl 29647 alt 2 hd 16 sec 63>
>>> /pci at 1f,0/ide at d/dad at 2,0
>>> 
>>> # metadb -a -f -c2 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s7
>>> # metainit -f d10 1 1 c0t0d0s0
>>> d10: Concat/Stripe is setup
>>> 
>>> # metainit -f d20 1 1 c0t2d0s0
>>> metainit: blade: c0t2d0s0: overlaps with device in metadevice state database
>>> 
>>> 
>>> - Vinay Bharel <vinay at bharel.com>
>>> 
>>> 
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