New Disk showing as Not Setup

[MikeL_4]

We have added some new SCSI disk to the server that are are going to use in a VxVM Volume Group, The ioscan shows disk fine:
disk 15 0/4/1/0.9.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE ModusLnkMXJ3147SC800600X
/dev/dsk/c4t9d0 /dev/rdsk/c4t9d0
disk 17 0/4/1/0.10.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE ModusLnkMXJ3147SC800600X
/dev/dsk/c4t10d0 /dev/rdsk/c4t10d0
disk 18 0/4/1/0.11.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE ModusLnkMXJ3147SC800600X
/dev/dsk/c4t11d0 /dev/rdsk/c4t11d0
disk 16 0/4/1/0.12.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE ModusLnkMXJ3147SC800600X
/dev/dsk/c4t12d0 /dev/rdsk/c4t12d0


but when I do a vxdisk list one of the new drives shows as Error:

DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
c2t0d0 simple rootdisk01 rootdg online
c2t1d0 simple rootdisk02 rootdg online
c4t1d0 simple - - LVM
c4t2d0 simple - - LVM
c4t3d0 simple - - LVM
c4t4d0 simple - - LVM
c4t5d0 simple - - LVM
c4t6d0 simple - - LVM
c4t9d0 simple - - error
c4t10d0 simple - - online invalid
c4t11d0 simple - - online invalid
c4t12d0 simple - - online invalid
c4t13d0 simple - - online invalid
c4t14d0 simple - - online invalid

Is there something I need to do to resolve the issue with this disk ?

[Hasan Atasoy · Accepted solution]

hi mikel;

after assigning to a server , you need to start by vxdisksetup -i c4t9dxx ( your disk name ) to label it.

Hasan.

[Torsten.]

I'm not that familiar with VxVM, but I guess this is normal for uninitialized disks.
The disks are not prepared for any volume manager yet.

[Ivan Krastev]

Use vxdiskadm to add disks under vxvm control - http://docs.hp.com/en/5187-1369/ch02s06.html


regards,
ivan

[MikeL_4]

I can Initialize all the disk added without any problems except for c4t9d0, It comes back telling me:

Disk c4t0d0 has Disabled Paths

Any Ideas ?

[Hasan Atasoy]

it is possible to share with us
vxdmpadm getsubpaths dmpnodename=c4t9d0

hasan.

[MikeL_4]

=>vxdmpadm getsubpaths dmpnodename=c4t9d0
NAME STATE PATH-TYPE CTLR-NAME ENCLR-TYPE ENCLR-NAME
========================================================================
c4t9d0 ENABLED - c4 OTHER_DISKS OTHER_DISKS

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Mike,

I would first try to remove/readd the disk in vxdiskadm to solve the error state of the disk/lun.

Otherwise you could try
# vxdctl enable

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[MikeL_4]

Thanks for your help, found the problem to be one of the disk that was installed was bad..