Hi,
Thanks for Colin Walters's reply. However, I got following errors when
tried to delete the old disk entry.
# hwmgr -delete scsi -did 7
hwmgr: Error (13) Permission denied.
Anyway, I decided to re-isntall the OS. After that, I tried to reproduce
the problem but with no luck.
Regards,
Raymond
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:21:24AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> Raymond,
>
> Try this:
>
> Start event manager, EVM viewer
> (It is important to record the sequence of events
> and messages in case anything goes wrong and you need
> tech support).
>
> Remove the replacement disk (the one you just
> put in) and replace the "old" disk.
>
> Identify the "old" disk using: hwmgr -show scsi .
> Look for its DEVICE IDENTIFIER or 'did'.
>
> Delete the entry for the old disk using:
> hwmgr -delete scsi -did <NN>
>
> Insert the new disk and issue:
> hwmgr -scan scsi.
>
> WAIT for the hardware scan to complete.
> There is no message, it is synchronous.
> Refresh the EVM viewer until you see
> scsi events.
>
> Verify discovery and naming of the new
> disk using hwmgr -show scsi.
>
> If the device was discovered, but has no
> device special file, use dsfmgr to create
> one (or to move/exchange the device to
> an existing dsf).
>
> If this does not work, you may have hit a known
> problem where a device ID gets wedged in the
> databases.
>
> I sent out a fix for that problem a few days
> ago.
>
> Regards,
>
> Colin Walters
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tru64-unix-managers-owner_at_ornl.gov
> [mailto:tru64-unix-managers-owner_at_ornl.gov]On Behalf Of Raymond Pang
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 9:28 PM
> To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
> Subject: Duplicate device id on 5.0A
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I got following errors after I replaced a raid-5 member disk with a
> previously used disk in the HSZ40. dsfmgr -vF seemed could not fix it.
> Any ideas? TIA.
>
> dsfmgr: NOTE: updating kernel basenames and old devnames for system at /
> ERROR: duplicate device id from kernel: 84 "a" 5100180 b
>
> getsysinfo:
> info.sys:
> flags = 0x2c1 : VALID BLOCK LDEV_VALID REGISTERED
> id: hw bn dn = 84 21 0
> instance = 0
> cdev ldev = 0 5100180
> ssys cat scat typ = "cdisk" "disk" "generic" "block"
> basen sfx oldn = "" "a" "rz26a"
>
>
> Regards,
> Raymond
>
>
Received on Mon Nov 13 2000 - 06:16:11 NZDT