not owner of metadevice database

From: Rob McMahon (Rob.McMahon@warwick.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2006 - 07:56:05 EDT


After a nasty crash of an E250 running Solaris 9, with a Compaq MSA 1000
array attached, I can no longer access the metaset on the array. This
is everybody's home directories, so it's a bit of an issue.

metaset says

Set name = msa, Set number = 2

Host Owner
  rusizi No (auto)

Drive Dbase

/dev/dsk/c3t500805F300171B51d1 No

Trying to take ownership says

> metaset -s msa -t -f
metaset: rusizi: msa: not owner of metadevice database

Exit 1
>

Looking through the archives, I can find only one similar problem, the
solution quoted being to purge the disk set, and recreate it.
Obviously, I'm just a tad nervous of doing this, and was wondering if
anyone had any safer suggestions, or if things had moved on.

Any help gratefully received.

Cheers,

Rob

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