We had the same issue when we reused discs that had previously been part of a mirrored pair (we removed them without scratching them). HP provided a fix which basically amounted to using debug to re-write a couple of bits on the disc. --------------------------------------------------------- Gary Paveza, Jr. Senior Systems Administrator (302) 252-4831 - phone (302) 377-1516 - cell -----Original Message----- From: Craig Lalley [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:21 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [HP3000-L] Disc Header information Everyone, I recently ran into an issue where the 3000 could not "recognize" a new disc I installed in the machine. At boot time, some strange error message occured saying the new disc was a "mirror of ldev 1", the system then put the drive in a unaccessable state. When the system comes up a DSTAT all shows the disc in an "UNKNOWN" state. It will not let me "SCRATCHVOL", if I do a "FORMATVOL" the system goes into a loop, hitting brake and abort, it then says the drive was put in a loaner state, but it was not. I have found a work around, but it takes about 20-30 minutes for each disc. My question is... 1) What type of header/MBR record is MPE looking for? 2) Is it possible to create the header record? (Unix PVCREATE) 3) Does anyone have a script to do it in debug? Thanks everyone for the help. -Craig --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *