From: Maglinger, Paul (PMAGLINGER@scvl.com)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2008 - 13:26:14 EST
That's odd... I thought I did. Apologies to all concerned and here's
the repost...
-Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Sill [mailto:de5-dated-1206294172.a3cdc7@sws5.ornl.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:43 PM
To: Maglinger, Paul
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Trying to locate hard drive from Tru64
Please send this to tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov, not
tru64-unix-managers-owner.
-Dave
>Okay, this is the way I finally got around to tracking these down.
>
>First of all since I was deleting the JBODs anyway to make mirror sets,
>I moved all of the data off the drive I thought I was going to use.
>After doing that, then I unmounted the disk which then allowed me to
use
>the # dd if=/dev/disk/dsk##c of=/dev/null command. That was enough to
>give me that warm fuzzy before smoking and recreating the disks.
Thanks
>again to everyone.
>
>-Paul
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: tru64-unix-managers-owner@ornl.gov
>[mailto:tru64-unix-managers-owner@ornl.gov] On Behalf Of Maglinger,
Paul
>Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:47 PM
>To: Tru64 Unix Managers list
>Subject: Addendum: Trying to locate hard drive from Tru64
>
>Thanks to Jean-marc Vincent, Bluejay Adametz, Andrew Tolme, David
>DeWolfe, Phil Sullivan, James Halte, Thierry Faidherbe, Martin
Anderson,
>and Dr. Thomas Blinn for the replies.
>
>Using a combination of several suggestions, I think I've gotten most of
>my drives mapped out. There are still 3 drives that I'm totally unsure
>of. This is a production system, so I've got to be darn sure of the
>disks I'm going to wipe and I can't take the system down. Some of the
>suggestions to locate the disks from the operating system were:
>
># dd if=/dev/rdisk/dskXYZc of=/dev/null
>I was really optimistic about this one, but when I tried to use the
>command I get a "device busy" error. I'm thinking that I probably have
>to unmount the disk before I do this?
>
># hwmgr -flash light -dsf/dev/disk/dsk##c
>Several replies indicated that the reason this didn't work is because
it
>only works on physical disk on the scsi bus, not behind an array
>controller.
>
># hwmgr show scsi and use the scsi device number with the locate
command
>to locate the disk
>The scsi device number doesn't seem to correlate with the disk numbers
>on the controller.
>
>Suggestion was made to reset the disklabel on the questionable drives,
>but I'm not comfortable doing that as I unsure how that will affect the
>drive.
>
>As I said, I have most of them identified, but am still wanting a sure
>fire ID from system to disk to make absolutely sure I'm hitting the
>correct one. I'm going to try unmounting one of the disks that is
empty
>and then retrying the dd command above, seeing if the busy issue goes
>away.
>
>Thanks for everyone's suggestions.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: tru64-unix-managers-owner@ornl.gov
>[mailto:tru64-unix-managers-owner@ornl.gov] On Behalf Of Maglinger,
Paul
>Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:49 AM
>To: Tru64 Unix Managers list
>Subject: Trying to locate hard drive from Tru64
>
>Running Tru64 5.1B on ES40 cluster tied to HSG80 controllers to our
>storage. I'm trying to locate the physical disks from Tru64. I've
>tried using #hwmgr locate -id ### -time 60 (where ### is the HWID
>listed on #hwmgr show scsi) and I'm not seeing any indication on any
of
>the drives. Someone told me to use #hwmgr -flash light -dsf
>/dev/disk/dsk##c and that doesn't seem to work either. Does someone
>have any ideas what I'm doing wrong or another idea how to locate a
>physical disk from the OS?
>
>________________________________
>
>Paul Maglinger, A+, CA, CCA, CET, MCSE
>
>Systems Administrator
>Shoe Carnival Inc.
>(812)867-4674
>pmaglinger@scvl.com
>
>
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