Hi, First up, thankyou to: Charles Rawls Sergey Prilutsky Michael Dean Peter Stokes Yother, Andy Morris, Matthew Michael Horton Sevan / Venture37 DRoss-Smith Who all provided useful and informative replies. I tried various methods of enabling the disk for formatting. It would appear some of the methods do not work properly any more, due to patch/OS release revisions to the format command I guess. So, I tried testing each method in turn and then came up with a combination of approaches. In the end, I used "format -e" which after a reconfig reboot of the systems prompted me to convert the disk from the 520byte blocksize to the standard Solaris 512byte blocksize. Using "scsinfo" as described in this archive here: http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2003-October/004426.html Was very helpful in analyzing the problem and explaining to the PHB's why it was taking so long to do. The main issue is that we have a support vendor who looks after our old Sun gear that is no longer under a Sun maintenance contract. They are supposed to send us the gear we need. In this case, they sent me a disk formatted for an EMC CLARIION, not an A5100. I would have sent it back to them and been an annoying customer, but the job was time critical and so I needed it right away. Thankyou to everyone - I am now restoring the stripe from backup and should be back in business soon.... Cheers.... -- Rachel Polanskis Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia grove_at_zeta.org.au http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html "The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum." - Finagle's Law _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Jan 7 21:59:59 2010
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