We appreciate all the response. Consensus is: the disk from the SunBlade 150 WILL work, that any regular ata/ide disk will work; disk replacement will be a standard procedure. Our system was mirrored across primary and secondary disks; the secondary disk is carrying the load now. We are not facing a re-install - just need to remirror with disksuite once the bad disk is replaced. The initial problem was the primary disk lost its label. We got "corrupt label - bad geometry" on a routine reboot. We were able to boot from the secondary disk. (phew!) We ran format to repair the label and found the primary disk no longer matched the secondary? Very curious...or is this to be expected? It had 65529 cylinders compared to 19156 on the secondary; 31.5 GB compared to 37.27 GB on the secondary. We were able to partition it and label it using the new smaller size; fsck of raw partitions failed until a filesystem was built on them - then fsck succeeded. We are unable to duplicate the original partition table. This is what happens: Warning: error writing VTOC. Oct 21 08:27:45 soda dada: WARNING: /pci@1f,0/ide@d/dad@0,0 (dad1): Oct 21 08:27:45 soda ID not found Oct 21 08:27:46 soda dada: WARNING: /pci@1f,0/ide@d/dad@0,0 (dad1): Oct 21 08:27:46 soda disk not responding to selection DIOCTL_RWCMD: I/O error Warning: error reading backup label. Have you ever seen anything like this? Is this disk salvageable? Thanks for your help...will summarize for the list again with any new information. Helen -- Helen P. Nulty Systems Analyst UNC-CH School of Public Health Instructional & Information Systems CB# 7400 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 ph: 919-966-9136 email: Helen_Nulty@unc.edu _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Oct 21 11:26:18 2008
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