Forgive me, but I forgot to write down the last argument (0) to the command
to delete the device-entry.
The correct commands are:
#dsfngr -Z rm_cluster_hwid 48 0
#dsfmgr -Z rm_local_hwid 48 0
I've corrected these lines already in the attached procedure.
Regards,
Gotfried
> Hi Fellow-Admins,
>
> thanks very much to all of you ,
> especially to
> Dr. Tom Blinn, Whitney Lotta,Davis Allan
> and Phil Baldwin
> for providing help so quickly.
>
> It was mostly advised to use #dsfmgr -e dsk7 dsk2 respectively #dsfmgr -m
> dsk7 dsk2.
> But in my case the system refused to accept this command, telling me that
> the (replaced)
> dsk2 is busy, although this drive wasn't there anymore and being replaced
> by a new
> disk, that now shows up under dsk7.
>
> Phil Baldwins hint finally solved the problem. Basically, it was necessary
> to delete
> the old disk device-entry in the device database first. After doing that,
> the dsfmgr -m
> command worked as expected.
>
> Here the complete procedure:
>
> Assumption: dsk2 failed and was replaced by a new disk in the same
> physical
> storagewoks-slot.
>
> 1.) Note the HWID of the failed drive.
>
> 2.) Take out the defektive disk and replace it with the new one.
>
> 3.) find the new disk: #hwmgr scan scsi
> #hwmgr show scsi
>
> The new installed disk (in my case) now shows up as dsk7, and the old
> removed
> Disk shows devicefile null and no valid path.
>
> 4.) Check new disk entry in device database
> grep "dsk 7" /etc/dfsc.dat (Note HWID)
>
> 5.) Check old entry from the disk being removed
> grep "dsk 2" /etc/dfsc.dat (Note HWID) HWID must be the same as in
> step 1
>
> 6.) Check that the old disk is now unknown to the system:
> #hwmgr -show comp -id 48 <--HWID entry from removed disk2
>
> 7.)If there is NO OUTPUT continue with step 8, otherwise call Sys.Support.
>
> 8) Delete old disk-entry from both, local-and cluster devicedatabase.
============================
corrected command-lines:
> #dsfmgr -Z rm_cluster_hwid 48 0 < I forgot to write down the last 0
> #dsfmgr -Z rm_local_hwid 48 0 < " " " " "
> " 0
============================
> 9.) hwmgr scan scsi
>
> 10.)assign name dsk2 to dsk7:
>
> #dsfmgr -V -m dsk7 dsk2
>
> That's it.
>
> Here my original question:
>
> > Hi Sys-Gurus,
> >
> > I have a problem with an replaced disk under UNIX V.5.1.
> > I had to replace dsk2 with a replacement in the same physical
> > slot.(Both ,the original - and the replacement disk support WWID).
> >
> > After installing the new drive the new disk showed up under another
> > HWID and device-file. The old disk entry was still there, but with
> > an invalid PATH.
> >
> > I think my mistakes begun when I deleted the old (original) disk-entry.
> > With respect to the HWID, the remaining disks were not in order
> > anymore. This was not a real problem, as all the other disks were
> > new and have never been used.So, to restored the HWID-Order, I swapped
> > the disk-entries (dsfmgr -e) until the order was restored.
> >
> > The only problem now is the newly installed disk. It shows up as
> > dsk7 , but it is supposed to be dsk2.
> >
> > The special file for dsk2 is not there anymore (dsfmgr -s).
> >
> > Is there a way to modify the dsk7 to dsk2 ?
> >
> > Any help is welcome.
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards ,
> > Gottfried
> >
> >
>
Received on Thu May 03 2001 - 13:27:52 NZST