[HPADM] Dump failure error

From: Jeff Cleverley (jeffc@ftc.agilent.com)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 16:19:13 EDT


Greetings,

I have a K460 running hpux 11.00 that quit responding to anything but
pings last night. I checked for drive error lights, front LED, etc and
everything looked good externally. I decided to do a TOC and get a core
dump. During the dump, it came back with an error that was something
like:

media write error - device 64:0x2

Unfortunately everything started scrolling off the screen during the
boot before I could get something to write with. I don't believe that
it showed any actual path to a device such as 0x064000 or 8/8/4.1.

The lvlnboot output is below.

> lvlnboot -v
Boot Definitions for Volume Group /dev/vg00:
Physical Volumes belonging in Root Volume Group:
        /dev/dsk/c0t6d0 (10/0.6.0) -- Boot Disk
        /dev/dsk/c0t5d0 (10/0.5.0) -- Boot Disk
Boot: lvol1 on: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0
                        /dev/dsk/c0t5d0
Root: lvol3 on: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0
                        /dev/dsk/c0t5d0
Swap: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0
                        /dev/dsk/c0t5d0
Dump: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0, 0

This leads me to believe that the c0t6d0 disk may have a problem even
though it is currently up with no stale extents, no messages in syslog
or dmesg about disk errors, etc.

The root volume group is mirrored. Should I split the mirror and
mediainit disk 6 and then put it back? Any information or suggestions
would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff Cleverley

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