VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Troubleshooting
Disk Troubleshooting
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on the disk. Any volume copies or regions located on the disk will not be
accessible after you reinitialize the disk.
Disk State: Locked
The disk belongs to a disk group that is currently imported by another
machine or was last imported by another machine and was not deported
cleanly. The disk is not currently usable on the local machine.
• To make all of the disks in the disk group available for use on the
local machine, deport the disk group on the remote machine and then
import the disk group on the local machine.
• To make one disk available for use on the local machine, remove the
disk from its disk group (on the other machine) and add it to a disk
group on the local machine.
• If the disk group is not imported on another machine, it may be
necessary to reimport the disk group and clear the host ID on all
disks in the disk group. You can do this by selecting the Clear Host ID
option in the Import Disk Group dialog box or by running the
following command:
vxdg -C import disk_group
NOTE If any of the disks in the disk group are in use by another machine, this
command can cause the disks to be managed by two systems at the same
time (which could lead to corruption).
Disk State: Inactive
The disk appears to belong to a disk group, but is not active in the disk
group. The disk may have become (temporarily) inaccessible.
Alternatively, the disk may have been inaccessible at disk group import,
but may be accessible now.
• Make sure that the physical disk is turned on, plugged in, and
attached to the computer. Repair any disk, controller, or cable
problems. Scan the disks on the system (Hosts > Scan Disks) to make
sure that the Volume Manager recognizes any newly attached