General Guidelines for Troubleshooting DiskSuite

Have the following information on hand when troubleshooting a DiskSuite problem:

• Contents of the /etc/vfstab file

• Status of state database replicas, metadevices, and hot spares, either from DiskSuite Tool or from the output of the metadb(1M) and metastat(1M) commands

• Disk partitioning information, either from the prtvtoc(1M) command or Storage Manager (Solaris systems), or the fdisk command (x86 systems)

• Solaris version

• Solaris patches

• DiskSuite patches