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Nguyen Anh Tien
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DS2405-Size

i 've just bought 5 new disks.(10KFC 32GB for each). When i used ioscan, i found that size is diffirent.
[MAILSVR:/] diskinfo /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0
SCSI describe of /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0:
vendor: HP 36.4G
product id: ST336607FC
type: direct access
size: 35566480 Kbytes
bytes per sector: 512
[MAILSVR:/] diskinfo /dev/rdsk/c5t11d0
SCSI describe of /dev/rdsk/c5t11d0:
vendor: HP 36.4G
product id: ST336607FC
type: direct access
size: 70000000 Kbytes
bytes per sector: 520
[MAILSVR:/]


I don't known what differ between 2 disks?
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Uwe Zessin
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Solution

Re: DS2405-Size

See the last line from each disk's output: it is the sector size. The second disk apparently was once in a VA7xxx storage array. It uses a 520 byte sector size: 512 bytes for data and 8 bytes for additional end-to-end verification.
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Nguyen Anh Tien
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Re: DS2405-Size

I pluged 05 new disk (size: 70000000 Kbytes) to our Disk system as attached picture (03 for upper, 02 for lower). beside 05 new disk we also have 04 old disk (size: 35566480 Kbytes)(02 for upper slot 0 and slot 1, 02 for lower slot0 and slot1). 4 old disk are good, but 05 new disk have problem, that is:
when i take pvcreate -f :
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[MAILSVR:/] pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/c5t4d0
Physical volume "/dev/rdsk/c5t4d0" has been successfully created.
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and take long time (3 min)
and then, i take vgcreate:
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[MAILSVR:/] vgcreate vg02 /dev/dsk/c5t4d0
vgcreate: Physical Volume "/dev/dsk/c5t4d0" contains no LVM information
[MAILSVR:/]

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Now i consider that 05 new disks is impossible to use for Disk system 2405 (without Vituarl disk Array).
If it is possible, pls show me how?
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Naveej.K.A
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Re: DS2405-Size

hi,

Not sure exactly whether doing a mediainit on the disk would help..just give a try.

mediainit /dev/rdsk/c5t11d0

There are some utilities available in ODE to change the block size of the hard disk..

with best wishes
Naveej
practice makes a man perfect!!!
Nguyen Anh Tien
Honored Contributor

Re: DS2405-Size

I already take mediainit, it take me 10 min to do, but the result is same (can't not add or create new vg)
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geeta
Frequent Advisor

Re: DS2405-Size

try formatting all over again

Install Command View
JBODfmt /dev/dsk/cXtXdX
pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/cXtXdX


:)geeta
Nguyen Anh Tien
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Re: DS2405-Size

thank all. I foget to close
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