topic Re: mediainit problem in Operating System - HP-UX

mediainit problem

Dong-Hwan Cha_1 — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:08:50 GMT

Dear All,

I have stopped the mediainit process by shutdown system cause it took so long time.
After that, the disk has no size and can't access it.
following is the ioscan & pvcreate output:
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# diskinfo /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0
SCSI describe of /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0:
vendor: SEAGATE
product id: ST336704LC
type: direct access
size: 0 Kbytes
bytes per sector: 0

And run vgcreate command, I/O error happend.
# vgcreate -s 8 /dev/vg01 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0
vgcreate: Couldn't open physical volume "/dev/dsk/c1t1d0":
I/O error
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At now, retry mediainit.....but it takes so long time.
How should I do?
Please help me.....

Re: mediainit problem

Robert-Jan Goossens — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:23:05 GMT

Hi,

Your disk is failg, call your Hardware support (HP-responce center) and log a hardware call.

Best regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: mediainit problem

bhavin asokan — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:29:00 GMT

hi,

it is clear that disk is having problem.you have to change the disk.

regds,

Re: mediainit problem

Ivajlo Yanakiev — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:47:58 GMT

Why you start mediainint.
It is like low level format.
Do not do it.
there are factory info that you lost :(
It was work with old disk. Do not do it on new disk.

what give you
ioscan -nfC disk

Re: mediainit problem

Bharat Katkar — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 06:01:40 GMT

Hi,
Try doing :

1. # pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0
If this fails then try doing dd to confirm whether disk id faulty.
# dd if=/dev/rdsk/c1t1d0 of=/dev/null

Hope that helps.
REgards,