topic FC disk system 2405 (A6250A) in Disk Enclosures

FC disk system 2405 (A6250A)

Jon Steele — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:06:01 GMT

Hi,

I have attached an fiber disk array 2405 to an Nclass running 11.23 HPUX. When I do an ioscan I can see all of my disk. 3 disk have 512 sectors and the rest have 520 sectors. How can I format the rest of the disk to have 512 sectors? I have loaded commandview but I am haveing trouble running it to see if I can do it that way.

Thank you
Jon

Re: FC disk system 2405 (A6250A)

Zygmunt Krawczyk — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:58:06 GMT

You need to use mediainit command.

Zygmunt

Re: FC disk system 2405 (A6250A)

Torsten. — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:08:37 GMT

Hi Jon,

the DS2405 was either used standalone or as an extension of the VA7xx0 virtual array.

When used with a VA, all the disk were formatted with 520 blocks - not usable in stand alone.

A good option is to install command view SDM (the VA7xx0 management software; available at hp.com/go/bsc ) and use the format option in "cvui" to format the disks back to 512 blocks.

Re: FC disk system 2405 (A6250A)

Jon Steele — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:27:24 GMT

Thank you