testing disksuite failover

[csgonan]

I just installed disksuite on a solaris 8 box and I want to force a failover. Anybody have any suggestions or things they have tried?

Thanks

 

[Annihilannic]

Please don't cross-post all of your threads.

Annihilannic.

 

[csgonan]

I understand that but last time I posted something I got an reply saying "for faster response, this would be better posted in XX group".

Sometimes ya just can't win.

 

[KenCunningham]

Sorry, that was probably me. However, once bitten and all that ;-)

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[Annihilannic]

Yeah, that's fine... I got the (possibly incorrect) impression that you were posting subsequent threads in both forums too. No big deal.

Annihilannic.

 

[csgonan]

I was testing the removal of the boot disk with the cfgadm command and got the following error. I installed patches 110912-05 and 117702-01 prior to doing this as they were related. Any ideas?? Thanks

Command I entered: cfgadm -c unconfigure c0::dsk/c0t0d0

Error: cfgadm: hardware specific failure: failed to unconfigure SCSI device: I/O error

# cfgadm
Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
c0 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
c1 scsi-bus connected unconfigured unknown
# cfgadm -al
Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
c0 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
c0::dsk/c0t0d0 disk connected configured unknown
c0::dsk/c0t1d0 disk connected configured unknown
c0::dsk/c0t6d0 CD-ROM connected configured unknown
c1 scsi-bus connected unconfigured unknown

 

[csgonan]

I did a little research and saw an article that specifically had this error in it. It indicated:

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NOTE: if the message “Hardware specific failure: failed to
unconfigure SCSI device: I/O error” appears, check to make sure that you cleared all replicas and metadevices from the disk, and that the disk is not being accessed
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I didn't want to remove all the replicas, etc, since I was just testing. Do you think this is why I couldn't cfgadm? I actually tested by doing an init 0 and reboot (which booted to the second drive, then issue a metareplace for all devices. They seem to be resyncing.

Would the cfgadm -f -s unconfigure worked instead of just the cfgadm -c unconfigure?

Thanks