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Corrupt label - bad geometry
I have allocated a new dev from symm.
This is what I get when I try to newfs the device:
Feb 3 09:10:47 abc01 Corrupt label - bad geometry
Feb 3 09:10:47 abc01 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Label says 97203
840 blocks; Drive says 24301440 blocks
And I can't relabel the device because it can't write to the vtoc.
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February 10th, 2010 12:00
SKT probably was on the right track but there might be many reasons what can cause the situation you ran into
Many Operating Systems do use the first blocks on a disk device to store information about how the disk device is to be vitualizedOn Solaris 10 you would have
Your OS found a label on the first device you were trying, which told it that the device is 97203840 blocksbut when it checked the undelying SCSI device it only found 24301440 blocks
!! Beware !!
This would realy make me wonder why.
Usually Solaris does a Autoconfiguration from the SCSI Information if this first blocks are empty
If Solaris finds acceptable data on these first blocks it will not try to fix using the SCSI information
You should try to understand why this situation occured and make sure you are accessing the correct device
You might be misleaded by the history of the device, the device entry on your Solaris System or by the way you try access the device
If I had to continue in this case I would have liked to have a full emcgrab and a current symapi database/Symmetrix configuration including the masking/access database to verify the mapping
If you are really really really sure you are working with the correct device/dtata, you'll have to correct the discrepancy between Solaris device and SCSI device information
This is not to be done by
format -> label
but by
format -> type
If this is not working, there are other ways to clear the first blocks first
SKT136306
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February 3rd, 2010 23:00
Label says 46.35G while drive says 11.58 GB. Does that ring a bell? can you explain a little more on your setup like OS, volume manager, path manager etc if any.
SKT136306
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February 3rd, 2010 23:00
check emc203991
http://csgateway.emc.com/primus.asp?id=emc203991
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modaslam
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February 3rd, 2010 23:00
OS Sun 10.
Using power path.
modaslam
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February 3rd, 2010 23:00
OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in the solution
But mine is Solaris.
SKT136306
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February 5th, 2010 01:00
Please remember to update us once fixed.
modaslam
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February 6th, 2010 04:00
SKT,
I had to un mask the dev and gave them a new dev
modaslam
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February 12th, 2010 03:00