SUMMARY: Deleting Non-Existent RAID Volume

Thanks to Jeremy Gillow for the following solution. It worked
for me. My original question follows the solution.

> Crist,
> 
> This has worked for me before on the V245:
> 
> You may want to remove all the hard drives except the troubled one
> first.
> 
> ok setenv fcode-debug? true
> fcode-debug? = true
> ok setenv auto-boot? false
> auto-boot? = false
> ok reset-all
> 
> ok show-disks
> a) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@a/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@1/disk
> b) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/ide@1f/cdrom
> c) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/ide@1f/disk
> q) NO SELECTION
> Enter Selection, q to quit: q
> ok select /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@a/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@1
> 
> ok show-volumes
> Volume 0 Target 0 Type IM (Integrated Mirroring)
> Optimal Enabled
> 2 Members 143112591 Blocks, 73 GB
> Disk 1
> Primary Online
> Target 4 FUJITSU MAY2073RCSUN72G 0401
> Disk 0
> Secondary Online
> Target 1 FUJITSU MAY2073RCSUN72G 0401
> 
> ok 0 delete-volume
> The volume and its data will be deleted
> Are you sure (yes/no)? [no] yes
> Volume 0 has been deleted
> 
> ok show-volumes
> No volumes to show
> 
> ok setenv auto-boot? true
> auto-boot? = true
> ok setenv fcode-debug? false
> fcode-debug? = false 
> 
> You can now boot the system, run devfsadm to see the fixed hard
drive,
> and run the format utility to detect the type and label the drive.
> 
> Note that when you run the show-volumes command one of the physical
> disks in the array will be shown as Missing. 

Original question:

>> I just added a disk to a V245 running Solaris 10. The new
>> (actually reused) disk will NOT be part of a RAID. However,
>> upon rebooting with the new disk, I don't see it in format(1M),
>> but I do see,
>>
>>   # raidctl
>>   RAID    Volume  RAID            RAID            Disk
>>   Volume  Type    Status          Disk            Status
>>   ------------------------------------------------------
>>   c1t132d0        IM      RESYNCING       -               MISSING
>>                                   c1t2d0          OK
>>   c1t0d0  IM      OK              c1t0d0          OK
>>                                   c1t1d0          OK
>>
>> So the disk is there, but the system seems to think it is
>> in an array. It very may well have been part of one in its
>> previous life. But when I try to break up that ghost volume,
>>
>>   # raidctl -d c1t132d0
>>   Not a volume 'c1t132d0'
>>
>> Since the controller, an LSI1064 HBA, is in between the OS
>> and the disk, I can't figure out a way to get in there to
>> kill any disk labels that are confusing the controller.
>>
>> How do I break up that phantom volume and get access to that
>> disk? Thanks.


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