I'm installing and configuring disksuite on a Solaris 8 ultra 5, my first experience with it. I already created my state databases, one on each of 2 paritions on each drive. The 2nd drive was bigger than the first but I only partitioned the part of a drive so it was identical in size and structure to the first (this is a test system before a real one comes in). I just want to mirror one drive onto the other. I set up a submirror d24 and d34 and created the mirror D14 (for /var). A metastat said everything was alright. I did a metattach d14 d34 and it indicated it was fine and way rsyncing. I unmounted /var and edited the vfstab /dev/dsk/md/d14 /dev/rdsk/md/d14 /var. When I tried to mount /var, I got an error that said "can't mount /var". I know the drive is ok cause other regular partitions were mounted from it. I ran an fsck on d14 and then I was able to mount /var, but it was empty. I don't know what caused it? Any ideas?

show us the following outputs: metadb -i metastat -t /etc/lvm/md.tab and which patch for SDS 4.2.1 have you installed?