problem with initializing ide disk in veritas vm

[ghopper123]

hello,

i'm a newbie with veritas. i installed free sf basic 4.1. my home system have solaris 10 ver 11/06 x86pc 64bit with 3 ide disks. c0d0 is the root disk.

my problem is initializing the ide c0d1 disk.

vxdiskadm:

Select disk devices to add: [<pattern-list>,all,list,q,?] c0d1
No matching disks found.

Select disk devices to add: [<pattern-list>,all,list,q,?] list

DEVICE DISK GROUP STATUS
c0t0d0 - - online invalid
c0t1d0 - - online invalid
c1t1d0 - - online invalid

tried c0t1d0 but no joy.

c0t1d0

Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)
This disk device does not appear to be valid. The disk may not be
formatted (format(1M)), may have a corrupted VTOC, the device file
for the disk may be missing or invalid, or the device may be turned-off
or detached from the system. This disk will be ignored.
Output format: [Device_Name,Disk_Access_Name]

[c0t1d0,c0t1d0s2]

i don't understand where the target id comes from. there no scsi disk on the system.

AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 5098 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@f,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
1. c0d1 <DEFAULT cyl 4862 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@f,1/ide@0/cmdk@1,0
2. c1d1 <DEFAULT cyl 4862 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@f,1/ide@1/cmdk@1,0

Cylinders
Partition Status Type start End Length %
======== ====== ====== ===== === ====== ===
1 Active Solaris2 1 4864 4864 50

# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0d1s2
* /dev/rdsk/c0d1s2 partition map
*
* Dimensions:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 63 sectors/track
* 255 tracks/cylinder
* 16065 sectors/cylinder
* 4864 cylinders
* 4862 accessible cylinders
*
* Flags:
* 1: unmountable
* 10: read-only
*
* Unallocated space:
* First Sector Last
* Sector Count Sector
* 48195 78059835 78108029
*
* First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
2 5 01 0 78108030 78108029
8 1 01 0 16065 16064
9 9 00 16065 32130 48194


i am stuck. help anybody

cheers.

 

[Annihilannic]

I didn't know SF Basic was availble for free, thanks for that!

I just downloaded it and installed it on my Solaris 10 x86 virtual machine, added a couple of 100MB IDE disks to the machine and tried to add them to VxVM. I ran into the same problem as you... even after using fdisk to create a partition table and format to label the disk.

I then tried the manual method, telling it not to try and use CDS:

[tt]/usr/lib/vxvm/bin/vxdisksetup -i c2t0d0 format=sliced
vxdg init testdg testdg01=c2t0d0 cds=off
/usr/lib/vxvm/bin/vxdisksetup -i c2t1d0 format=sliced
vxdg -g testdg adddisk testdg02=c2t1d0[/tt]

...and that seemed to work okay. So I'm not sure whether CDS even works with IDE disks... and if it doesn't, whether there is a 'proper' way through vxdiskadm to initialise and add disks.

Annihilannic.

 

[ghopper123]

hello Annihilannic,

i did what you did and it works.

# /usr/lib/vxvm/bin/vxdisksetup -i c0t1d0 format=sliced
# vxdg init testdg testdg01=c0t1d0 cds=off

# vxprint
Disk group: testdg

TY NAME ASSOC KSTATE LENGTH PLOFFS STATE TUTIL0 PUTIL0
dg testdg testdg - - - - - -

dm testdg01 c0t1d0s2 - 78075872 - - - -

# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0d1s2

* First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
2 5 01 0 78108030 78108029
3 15 01 16065 16065 32129
4 14 01 32130 78075900 78108029
8 1 01 0 16065 16064

somehow it connects c0t0d1 to c0d1. why, i don't know.

thank you very much.

cheers.