I'm trying to set up a pair of these cards in a E450. I've
created two logical units each of 50G. I now want to use
DiskSuite to soft partition them but Disksuite will only
allow me to use one of the logical drives i.e.

When creating the initial metas

metainit d0 -p -e c1t0d0 14g
metainit d1 -p -e c2t0d0 14g -fails overlap in d0

If you reverse the order the problem stays with the second
command

Both seem to live on the same logical device (using metastat)

metainit d0 -p c1t0d0s0 14g
metainit d1 -p c2t0d0s0 14g
metainit d2 -p c1t0d0s0 14g
metainit d3 -p c2t0d0s0 14g - errors out space

If I try to create multiple logical drives on the same set of
physical drives it fails i.e.

dptutil -s 14336 -l -g c1t0d0,c3t0d0,c1t1d0s0,c2t1d0s0 is OK
dptutil -s 14336 -l -g c1t0d0,c3t0d0,c1t1d0s0,c2t1d0s0 fails

OS: Solaris 8 c/w latest recommended patch
Raid Manager latest Maintenance patch
DiskSuite from Solaris 8 media

Any straws gratefully grasped

TIA

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Scott

thanks for that, I think I've got 108974-17/31 on the box
so I'll check on sunsolve. There is a known bug with duplicate
serial numbers being reported by non-Sun disks, but as I have
'real' Sun disks I don't think that is it.

Cheers

Paul

Scott Howard wrote:
>
> Paul Watson <paul@oninit.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to set up a pair of these cards in a E450. I've
> > created two logical units each of 50G. I now want to use
> > DiskSuite to soft partition them but Disksuite will only
> > allow me to use one of the logical drives i.e.
> >
> > When creating the initial metas
> >
> > metainit d0 -p -e c1t0d0 14g
> > metainit d1 -p -e c2t0d0 14g -fails overlap in d0
>
> Presuming you're on Solaris 8, patch 108974-11 should fix this.
>
> Scott.

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The patch is OK, reset the Raid back to install level, reset
firmware, reset everydisk in the array, reboot. Rebuild the
array and wait it to fully complete and now it's OK.

Scott Howard wrote:
>
> Paul Watson <paul@oninit.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to set up a pair of these cards in a E450. I've
> > created two logical units each of 50G. I now want to use
> > DiskSuite to soft partition them but Disksuite will only
> > allow me to use one of the logical drives i.e.
> >
> > When creating the initial metas
> >
> > metainit d0 -p -e c1t0d0 14g
> > metainit d1 -p -e c2t0d0 14g -fails overlap in d0
>
> Presuming you're on Solaris 8, patch 108974-11 should fix this.
>
> Scott.

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