Metainit errors striping non-Sun disks

From: Steve Howie (showie@uoguelph.ca)
Date: Sun Dec 28 2003 - 13:34:53 EST


I've been getting messages about a slice overlaps when I try to create
a SDS concatenation out of 2 luns on a HP XP512 Storage Area network.

# metainit d90 2 1 c7t0d21s6 1 c7t0d22s6
metainit: glasgow: c7t0d22s6: overlaps with device in d90

Patch 108974-36 supposedly deals with this. No luck. Running SDS 2.4.1
(I think - it was installed off the Supplement disk of Solaris 8 (02/02)

The slices definitely do not overlap - they are on separate luns.

Same problems with an attempt to stripe the same slices

The disks are not SUN drives, but appear as generic HP disks - see the
following output from the format command. (disks 6 thru 11)

---
#format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c1t0d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424>
          /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000004cfb6a1a5,0
       1. c1t1d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424>
          /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000004cfb6a98d,0
       2. c3t8d0 <drive not available: reserved>
          /pci@8,600000/pci@1/scsi@4/sd@8,0
       3. c3t9d0 <drive not available: reserved>
          /pci@8,600000/pci@1/scsi@4/sd@9,0
       4. c4t8d0 <drive not available: reserved>
          /pci@8,600000/pci@1/scsi@5/sd@8,0
       5. c4t9d0 <drive not available: reserved>
          /pci@8,600000/pci@1/scsi@5/sd@9,0
       6. c7t0d21 <HP-OPEN-9-SUN-0118 cyl 10014 alt 2 hd 15 sec 96>
          /pci@8,700000/JNI,FCR@1/sd@0,15
       7. c7t0d22 <HP-OPEN-9-SUN-0118 cyl 10014 alt 2 hd 15 sec 96>
          /pci@8,700000/JNI,FCR@1/sd@0,16
       8. c7t0d23 <HP-OPEN-9-SUN-0118 cyl 10014 alt 2 hd 15 sec 96>
          /pci@8,700000/JNI,FCR@1/sd@0,17
       9. c7t0d24 <HP-OPEN-9-SUN-0118 cyl 10014 alt 2 hd 15 sec 96>
          /pci@8,700000/JNI,FCR@1/sd@0,18
      10. c7t0d25 <HP-OPEN-9-SUN-0118 cyl 10014 alt 2 hd 15 sec 96>
          /pci@8,700000/JNI,FCR@1/sd@0,19
      11. c7t0d26 <HP-OPEN-9-SUN-0118 cyl 10014 alt 2 hd 15 sec 96>
          /pci@8,700000/JNI,FCR@1/sd@0,1a
I got our  XP512 admin to give me a 40Gb. single LUN instead so I can at 
least get rolling with creating the file system
Any ideas?
thanks.
Scotty
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