Dave,
My experience was the same as John's.
Have you tried to do a vsclose/vsopen if there are missing members?
Scott
> Dave,
> I spent months trying to get TimeFinder woking reliably with an MPE system,
> and finally gave up. I did manage to figure out the problem you describe,
> however. The problem stems from the fact that as soon as MPE sees the
> master volume of volume set come online, it attempts to do a VSOPEN, even
> though no VSOPEN command has been issued (very annoying!). Unfortunately,
> not all volumes are available at the same moment, so the system will attempt
> to open some volumes that are not yet online, and conclude that they are not
> available. The solution is to split individual BCV's rather than the entire
> set. If you make sure each of the member volumes is online before making
> the master available, it will be able to find all the volumes during the
> VSOPEN process. HTH.
>
> John Clogg
>
>
> >From: Dave <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: Dave <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: [HP3000-L] EMC Volumes disappear
> >Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:33:33 -0500
> >
> >To All:
> >
> >I have an ongoing problem with a Symmetix and K-Class (running 6.0) and
> >volumes disappearing after I close and split the BCVs from them.
> >
> >I have upgraded the firmware on the controllers to 3944 (I know, I know,
> >but we initially had no incidents with this version as compared to 3728).
> >
> >The events are:
> >
> >VSCLOSE
> >
> >Split
> >
> >Volumes start automatically mounting (No VSOPEN issued). When complete,
> >there are volumes missing from the DSTAT list and of course require a
> >reboot in order to get mounted.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Dave
> >
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