Thanks to the numerous replies, but I replaced the drive today and it was easier than I thought, or had been led to believe. Many people pointed out the luxadm command, but I didn't need to use it to replace this drive. /etc/path_to_inst was also mentioned, as the WWN of the drives is listed there, but the system took care of that for me. What I did was: 1) Remove failed disk. It was mirrored via DiskSuite to another drive on the upper drive shelf (different controller) 2) Inserted new disk. A message on the console stated that c0t0d0 had a new WWN. 3) Ran format to label and partition new disk 4) Ran installboot on new disk 5) Rebuilt mirrors 6) Changed boot-device with eeprom command to point to new disk's WWN Except for #6, this was the same as swapping a SCSI disk in any other Sun system, and Solaris took care of everything else for me. Thanks for the replies, Thomas Carter MEMC Southwest ----- Forwarded by Thomas Carter/MIS/SW/MEMC on 02/21/2003 01:30 PM ----- Thomas Carter To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org 02/19/2003 02:01 cc: PM Subject: E3500 Boot disk replace I have an E3500 with mirrored OS disks running Solaris 8, and one of the disks (c0t0d0) has failed. I would like to replace the disk on-line, and my plan is as follows: 1) replace drive 2) devfsadm -c disk 3) partition new drive 4) recreate mirrors 5) run installboot on new drive 6) change boot device with eeprom (I believe the FC-AL WWN is part of the boot path) I have limited experience with FC-AL drives, and I would like to know if I have missed anything, or if there are any differences between FC-AL and SCSI that I should watch out for. Thanks, Thomas Carter MEMC Southwest _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Feb 21 14:41:47 2003
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