[SunHELP] SDS Mirroring on a Sun Blade 100

[Vinay Bharel]

Thanks Magnus! This worked perfectly!

- Vinay Bharel <vinay at bharel.com>

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Magnus Abrante wrote:

> 
> 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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