SUMMARY: Trying to locate hard drive from Tru64

That's odd... I thought I did.  Apologies to all concerned and here's
the repost...

-Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Sill [mailto:[email protected]] 
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 [email protected], 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: [email protected]
>[mailto:[email protected]] 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: [email protected]
>[mailto:[email protected]] 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 
>[email protected] 
>
>
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