disklabel hangs

From: Andrew Raine (Andrew.Raine@mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2005 - 12:02:11 EST


Dear Managers,

On a 2-node cluster, running Tru64 PK3, with most of the storage on an
HSG80...

We tried to add some storage from our MSA1000, which is sitting on the
same SAN. We created the volume, made it visible to the cluster:

beta # hwmgr -v d
 HWID: Device Name Mfg Model Location
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<cut>
  230: /dev/cport/scp1 MSA1000 bus-1-targ-3-lun-0
  231: /dev/disk/dsk32c COMPAQ MSA1000 VOLUME bus-1-targ-3-lun-9

and then tried to put a disklabel on it:

beta # disklabel -w dsk32

but this has hung, and can't be killed!

So can anyone tell me:

(a) What we did wrong?

(b) Whether there is anything we can do to recover the situation
     without rebooting?

Many thanks!

Andrew

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