managing disk devices

From: Vic Engle (sunmanager@summerseas.com)
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 08:32:13 EDT


Hello List,

We have an HP SAN and when I present a lun from the SAN to one of the
Solaris 8 systems I use the multipath utility spmgr to add the wwn of
the disk and then devfsadm -C to get solaris to notice the disk. After
that I can go into format and label and partition the new disk. All this
is great but if I then want to remove that disk I again use spmgr to
delete the wwn and devfsadm -C but afterwards when I run format, the
disk is still listed even though it is no longer attached.

       6. c2t0d4 <COMPAQ-HSV110(C)COMPAQ-3000 cyl 31998 alt 2 hd 128 sec
128>
          /swsp@0,1/sd@0,4
       7. c2t0d5 <drive not available: formatting>
          /swsp@0,1/sd@0,5
       8. c2t0d6 <drive not available: formatting>

I thought cfgadm might resolve the problem but it doesn't seem to even
know about the c2 controller. (See the cfgadm -al output below)

Is there any way to tell Solaris that these devices are no longer
present? The systems are an E250, E450 and a V880.

Thanks,
Vic Engle

marble{root}# cfgadm -al
Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant
Condition
c0 scsi-bus connected configured
unknown
c0::dsk/c0t1d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c0::dsk/c0t3d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c1 scsi-bus connected configured
unknown
c17 scsi-bus connected configured
unknown
c17::dsk/c17t0d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c17::dsk/c17t10d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c17::dsk/c17t11d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c17::dsk/c17t12d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c17::dsk/c17t13d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c17::dsk/c17t1d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c17::dsk/c17t2d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c17::dsk/c17t3d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c17::dsk/c17t4d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c17::dsk/c17t5d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c17::dsk/c17t8d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c17::dsk/c17t9d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c17::es/ses8 processor connected configured
unknown
c17::es/ses9 processor connected configured
unknown
c18 scsi-bus connected configured
unknown
c18::dsk/c18t0d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c18::dsk/c18t10d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c18::dsk/c18t11d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c18::dsk/c18t12d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c18::dsk/c18t13d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c18::dsk/c18t1d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c18::dsk/c18t2d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c18::dsk/c18t3d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c18::dsk/c18t4d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c18::dsk/c18t5d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c18::dsk/c18t8d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c18::dsk/c18t9d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c18::es/ses10 processor connected configured
unknown
c18::es/ses11 processor connected configured
unknown
c19 scsi-bus connected configured
unknown
c19::dsk/c19t0d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c19::dsk/c19t1d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c19::dsk/c19t2d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c19::dsk/c19t3d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c1::dsk/c1t6d0 CD-ROM connected configured
unknown
c20 scsi-bus connected configured
unknown
c20::dsk/c20t0d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c20::dsk/c20t1d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c20::dsk/c20t2d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c20::dsk/c20t3d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c21 scsi-bus connected configured
unknown
c21::dsk/c21t0d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c21::dsk/c21t1d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c21::dsk/c21t2d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c21::dsk/c21t3d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c22 scsi-bus connected configured
unknown
c22::dsk/c22t0d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c22::dsk/c22t1d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c22::dsk/c22t2d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c22::dsk/c22t3d0 disk connected configured
unknown
c23 scsi-bus connected unconfigured
unknown
c24 scsi-bus connected unconfigured
unknown
marble{root}#
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