Hi again.
My original question is below:
Well it turned out to be possible to move the data. Thanks to:
LHERCAUD_at_bouyguestelecom.fr
rye_at_jwfc.jfcom.mil
and especially
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Apparently, the HSG60 INITIALIZE command doesn't destroy the data in
the raidset, it just updates the metadata. I had to move the disks
and then "run config" to find the new drives, create the raidset,
INITIALIZE the raidset (the part I was missing), and create the partitions.
After that, I used wwidmgr from the alpha firmware to re-create the
dga* devices. TRU64 5.1 still couldn't see the devices, but a COMPAQ
"Best Practices" documant on restoring the root disk:
http://tru64unix.compaq.com/faqs/publications/best_practices/BP_RECROOT/TITL
E.HTM
provided the missing information. After booting in single user mode
I had to run "/sbin/mountroot" to find the devices and
"dsfmgr -e dsk4 0" to rename the new devices to the old names. After
that /sbin/bcheckrc was able to mount all the disks, and the data
appears to be intact. Many thanks to all who helped.
--
Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045
sloane_at_ukans.edu http://www.ukans.edu/home/sloane Phone:(785)864-0444
> -----Original Message-----
> We have a DS10 connected to a HSG80 and need to move the disks to
> a HSG60. There are no other disks on the system, and we are booting
> TRU64 5.1 from the HSG80. In other cases we were able to move RAID
> and Mirror sets over by just physically moving the disks, re-creating
> the RAID or Mirror set, and associating a unit with it without
> initializing the RAID set. Unfortunately, the current RAID set is
> divided into 4 logical units, and the HSG60 won't let us create the
> partitions without initializing. Is there any way to move the disks
> without having to save everything to tape, move the disks, boot from
> CD and restore?
Received on Mon Apr 02 2001 - 19:41:22 NZST