[SunHELP] SDS Mirroring on a Sun Blade 100

[Magnus Abrante]

I dont think its a good idea to change the device ID of a disk on which 
are initialized in SDS (aka a disk which have metadb's or are included in 
a metadevice), apart from that it shouldn't be any problems.

        //Magnus Abrante
/* This is my opinion and not the one of my employer */

> 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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