pvcreate failure

[JOHN TURNER_2]

g'day

we are having a problem with a new disk that we have installed on a lclass server, we can see the disk via ioscan and diskinfo returns the correct information, however when we run the pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk//c1t0d0 we get the following error message

LIVE!--ssdopro1[/] pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0
pvcreate: writing LVM record: Interrupted system call

can anyone shed any light on the situation

cheers in advance

john

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi John:

I'd be interested to see if the 'syslog' has any other messages.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Peter Godron]

John,
have you tried (faulty disk?):
dd if=/dev/rdsk/cxtydz of=/dev/null bs=1024k
to check that the disk is actually ok.
Is/was there a mediainit running against the disk ?
Double check your device path.

[Piergiacomo Perini]

Hi John,

and if you try with command "mediainit" ?

hth
pg

[John Guster]

check this one, it might give some hint.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1096621

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I would not run mediainit; it is a destructive command and I have literally not used mediainit since HP-UX 9.

This test should more than suffice:

dd if=/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0 of=/dev/null bs=256k