Sun Microsystems V890 Server User Manual


 
Maintaining disk drives
Avaya CMS Sun Fire V880/V890 Installation, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting May 2006
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Setting up the disk drives
After you replace defective disk drives, do one of the following, depending on drives replaced:
Partitioning disk drives
If you are replacing a defective data disk drive in a system and CMS is not operational, or if you
are replacing a single defective boot disk (primary or mirror), you must manually partition the
disk drive. Use the following information:
Disk partition values, Boot disks on page 110 or Data disks on page 111.
Partitioning and formatting a disk on page 112.
Drives replaced Procedure
One boot disk Partition the new boot disk drive (see Partitioning disk drives
on
page 109). Continue with the procedures in "Recovering a mirrored
system after disk failure" in the maintenance chapter of the CMS
software installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting document for
your CMS release.
Both boot disks Continue with the procedures in "Performing a CMSADM restore of a
mirrored or non-mirrored system" in the maintenance chapter of the
CMS software installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting
document for your CMS release.
Data disks Partition and administer the drive so that it works with the existing
disk drives (see Partitioning disk drives
on page 109). Continue with
the procedures in "Recovering a mirrored system after disk failure" in
the maintenance chapter of the CMS software installation,
maintenance, and troubleshooting document for your CMS release.