How to make external disk online

[Prasad Joshi]

Hi All,

I am having following disks, some connected through external storage.

sliam26:/ # vxdisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
c2t0d0 auto:LVM - - LVM
c2t1d0s2 auto:LVM - - LVM
c4t1d0 auto:cdsdisk - - online
c4t2d0 auto:cdsdisk - - online
c4t3d0 auto:cdsdisk - - online
c4t4d0 auto:cdsdisk - - online
c4t5d0 auto:cdsdisk - - online
c4t6d0 auto:cdsdisk - - online
c4t9d0 auto:cdsdisk - - online
c4t10d0 auto - - offline
c5t0d0 auto - - offline
c5t1d0 auto - - offline
c5t2d0 auto - - offline
c5t4d0 auto - - offline
c5t8d0 auto - - offline
c5t15d0 auto - - offline

But, some of them are offline. How can I make them onlin and bring them under VxVM control.

sliam26:/ # vxdiskunsetup c4t10d0
VxVM vxdiskunsetup ERROR V-5-2-1119 c4t10d0: Disk device is offline. Can't perform operation until disk is online.

Thanks and regards,
Prasad.

[Arunvijai_4 · Accepted solution]

Hi Prasad

Can you see the disks in # ioscan -fnC disk ? Check this doc for troubleshooting information

http://docs.hp.com/en/B7961-90020/ch06s03.html#s6-3-0-0-7

-Arun

[Prasad Joshi]

Hi Arunvijay,

I used
vxdisk -f init on these disks and they are working fine.

Thanks and regards,
Prasad.