LIF corrupt or not present

[Rob Yohn]

Ganesan, thanks for this info.

Should I do lvreduce/vgreduce of vg00 to remove the bad drive before starting these steps?

Here is output from /etc/lvmtab for vg00. c0t5d0 is the primary drive and also the drive I am having problems with. c1t4d0 is the mirror drive. It looks like I have 2 additional drives as part of vg00.

strings /etc/lvmtab
/dev/vg00
/dev/dsk/c0t5d0
/dev/dsk/c0t8d0
/dev/dsk/c1t5d0
/dev/dsk/c1t4d0

[Ganesan R]

Hi,

No need of reducing the lv's using lvreduce. then obviously vgreduce also not required.

Refer this document if you need more clarifications. it is good document.

http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-1236/When_Good_Disks_Go_Bad_WP.pdf

[Tim Nelson]

Rob,

The clean way would be to reduce the disk but... As it is not responding to writes the lvreduce / vgreduce commands will fail.

The best answer to this is to follow the doc "when good disks go bad". A copy is attached.

[Torsten.]

Because you have hp-ux 10.20 I think your old disk (2GB) is in an old server and most likely not hot swappable - so you need to do an offline replacement anyway. Shut down the server, replace the disk and re-configure it (follow the docs-> vgcfgrestore ...).