CDS Disk Initialization Fails due to EFI Label when Disk is SMI format
Updated: 21 May 2010 | 3 comments
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SFHA for Oracle 5.0 MP1
After adding a new 20GB LUN to my Solaris 10 system, initializing the LUN fails with the following "VxVM vxdisksetup ERROR V-5-2-1485 /dev/vx/rdmp/c2t202500A0B849F909d0: cannot initialize EFI disk as cdsdisk disk"
Format -e reports that the LUN is labled as SMI and not EFI. How can you force VxVM to recognize the SMI label?
Thanks.
Joe D
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It's not a question of
It's not a question of recognizing the label so much as it is about defaults. The VxVM default is to create a private region of type "CDS". The CDS type can't be created on an EFI disk. Instead, create a non-CDS private region. From the vxdisk manpage:
You can turn the CDS default off in the /etc/default/vxdisk file:
format=format
Defines the default format for auto type disks. Supported values of format are cdsdisk, simple and sliced.
So, set to sliced or simple, then re-run your command and it should work. The .../vxdisk defaults file is honored by vxdisksetup.
See also the vxdisk man page:
http://sfdoccentral.symantec.com/sf/5.0MP3/solaris...
Regards,
Scott
Hello, Scott is right above,
Hello,
Scott is right above, try running "vxdisksetup -i <disk> format=sliced"
Should help..
Gaurav
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Joe, If the drive is only
Joe,
If the drive is only 20GB it should not require an EFI label. Verify the drive has an SMI label using prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/cXtXdXs2 then rescan the DMP device tree using the following command.
#vxdctl enable
After the rescan is complete you should be able to initialize the drive using vxdisksetup -i.
Thanks,
ED
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