Chapter 5
IOPn.Diskx Reset Mirror Copy
This command attempts to restart a mirror copy for a device, indicated by
This command usually is issued to restart a mirror copy that has failed because the mirror copy
source disk encountered bad blocks. Typically you would enable bad block remapping
immediately prior to this call.
This command can also be used if you want to restart a failed mirror copy without first enabling
bad block remapping. In this situation, invoking the command is a way to check whether the
copy failed initially because of a transient error. If so, the mirror copy might now succeed.
Command
IOPn.Diskx Reset Mirror Copy
Console Syntax MTCCONS IOPn.Diskx Reset Mirror Copy
n – the ID number of the IOP (1 or 2)
x – the ID number of the SCSI disk
Once the mirror copy completes successfully, if bad block remapping is
Results
enabled, the system automatically turns it off, but only for the drives that just
completed the mirror copy.
See Also
IOPn.Diskx Disable Bad Block Remap
IOPn.Diskx Enable Bad Block Remap
IOPn.Diskx Enable Mirrored Disk
IOPn.ScsiProvider Show Mirror Status
Commands
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