Turned out that the vendor had received the disks
with trashed microcode. Once that was reloaded
all is fine.
Thanks to all who lead me thru the hardware path.
jim
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, jim caldwell wrote:
>
> I'm trying to populate an BA356 SBB shelf. Due to various
> hardware problems, I've had to play musical chairs with the
> 4 (new) drives and now I've gotten into the situation where
> Tru64 will make 2 copies of devnames for dsk3 and dsk4 but
> nothing for dsk5 and dsk6. I tried rebooting the system
> 4 times with only one disk each time, doing "disklabel -z"
> on the devname and rm'ing the /dev/disk/dsk3c /dev/rdisk/dsk3c
> /dev/disk/4c... ad nauseum. (My users who are trying to work
> on dsk1 and dsk2 are probably ready to kill me.)
>
> the devnames come out as:
>
> dsk3a+ dsk3a+ dsk3b+ dsk3b+ ...dsk3h+ dsk4a+ dsk4a+ dsk4b+...
>
> What more than disklabel -z and rm the devnames do I need to
> do to wipe the slate clean?
>
> thanks,
> jim
>
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Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry (fax) 415-502-1411
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513 Parnassus Avenue (video) farbauti.compchem.ucsf.edu
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