[Orca-users] Re: disk run doesn't show all disks

[Blair Zajac]

Alan, Mike,

I put a copy of this file, with minor formatting modifications to
fit with the 1.28b4 already published, up at:

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~blair/orca/pub/orcallator.se-1.28b5.txt

Thanks,
Blair

alegrand at wallace.com wrote:
> 
> Mike,
> 
> Would you try the attached code when you have a change. I am pretty
> sure I fixed the problem. It arose from a fix for a problem with the
> RICHPse V3.1 distribution that I had covered up,apparently, I did
> not do this well enough.
> 
> On my systems with raid controllers  I could not read to the end of
> the Global_diskinfo[i] structure without core dumping when I use
> the parameter GLOBAL_diskinfo_size to identify the last element.
> So I used the number of physical disks present to find a safe place to
> stop.  This seemed to work on all of the systems that I tested; but,
> apparently, it can be too soon.
> 
>         On the system that reproduced the error: Solaris 2.6 &
> RICHPse 3.2 there was a nonexistant disk in this structure prior to
> the last real physical disk.  So, it did not find the last disk.  I
> don't know  where this disk came from; but, my guess is that it will
> go after I do boot -r on the system. I will probably try this later.
> 
>         The script now reads though the Global_diskinfo[] stuctuture
> until it encounters a disk slice. Since, the physical disks occur
> before the disk partitions this should work more reliably.
> 
> Alan LeGrand
> Email:alegrand at wallace.com
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