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Jack_Ab
Level 2
13 years ago

Cannot vxdisksetup EMC disks

Hello Experts, I have an EMC AX4-5F attached to 2 servers. Both internal disks of the servers have been initialized, encap and mirrored with Veritas. But my problem is to initialize the EMC disks. ...
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  • Jack_Ab's avatar
    Jack_Ab
    13 years ago

    Hi,

    Thanks for all the ideas, they do help in the troubleshooting.

    Anyway, the problem is solved now. The reason the EMC disks was not "recognised" previously is because by default, the disk label is of type SMI. I just had to change the label to EFI, then everything works fine.

    format> l
    [0] SMI Label
    [1] EFI Label
    Specify Label type[0]: 1
    Warning: This disk has an SMI label. Changing to EFI label will erase all
    current partitions.
    Continue? y

    Thanks again guys!

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TonyGriffiths
Level 6
13 years ago

Hi

Its also worth checking the systelog (messages) file to see if there are any i/o errors from these devices.

The prtvtoc (that rregunta advised) command will show if the disk has a label and the disk is readable.

Also I see these are managed by EMC PowerPath. Are the devices healthy from a Powerpath perspective ?

 

cheers

tony