Checking System Disks

[hameja]

Hi Gurus

I brought down Solaris box yesterday and during booting I was advised to run FSCK. I tried to run metastat I got a response of no database installed and then I run prtdiag -v
HDD0 reported amber light. Is there any more command that that report errors on that disk.

John

 

[KenCunningham]

Did you run an fsck on it as advised?

 

[marrow]

/usr/sbin/prtdiag -v |grep amber
MB SERVICE off amber
PS0 SERVICE off amber
HDD0 SERVICE off amber
HDD1 SERVICE off amber

Don't believe amber is a problem, all our systems are as above. What happens using command "metadb"
Also agree with Hameja - have you run fsck as advised, looks like you've lost something, fsck may bring it back.
Other commands, run "dmesg" to see what system is saying
iostat -En will list your disks and possible errors

 

[cndcadams]

what model system is this?

check /var/adm/messages for errors, something may have happened before you brought the system down.

more /var/adm/messages | grep WARNING

also check /var/adm/messages.1 etc..

thanks

CA

 

[KenCunningham]

John - you mentioned metastat. I take this as an indication that you're using Solaris Disk Suite (or it's successor) on this system?

 

[Annihilannic]

I suggest you run format to see whether the system can "see" the disk any more, select the disk in question and then run chose 'analyze' and 'read'. This will perform a non-destructive test of the entire disk and attempt to repair any bad blocks found. Be careful not to choose the other read/write tests as they will destroy the contents of the disk.

Annihilannic.