Itanium 4640 and IOSCAN

[Chris Fadrowski]

i ran an ioscan to find all of my disks and saw something i have never seen before. Can anyone explain this "s" after the device?

isk 1 0/1/1/0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GMAS3367NC
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0
disk 2 0/1/1/0.1.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GMAS3367NC
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0 /dev/dsk/c2t1d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s2
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s3
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s1


what is going on here? this is 11i ver 2 running on an itanium system. I was just looking to mirror the two boot drives.

[Zygmunt Krawczyk · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

HP-UX 11i v2 has different disk layout than 11i v1. These "s" are special areas. For example "s1" is EFI partition.

Regards,
Zygmunt

[Zygmunt Krawczyk]

Hi Chris,

this is a link to the doc

"Mirroring HP-UX root disk on Itanium-based Systems"

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechSingleTipDetailPage_IDX/1,2366,5343,00.html

Regards,
Zygmunt