See sun bugid 4330270
Only catch is the bug states Sol 8 is the only os having the problem. It sounds
like your issue, though.
Paul McKinley

Scott Cornwell wrote:

> I Installed Solaris 7 11/99 on a SUN E4500 connected to 1ea.
> SUN D1000 (boot) and 2ea. A1000's (12x18gb) with recommended
> patches, then Solaris RAID Manager (2.6? 6.2?((came w/ A1000's)),
> and Veritas Volume Manager 3.0.4. I was able to mirror the disks
> in the D1000 but VM won't address the A1000's properly. The original setting
> of the A1000's was RAID 5 and chopped the boxes into 4 LUNS. The customer
> wants all 12 disks in one box as a
> group at RAID 0. I deleted the LUNS and created the desired
> RAID setting in RAID Manager but the VMSA now sees two more
> controller instances that equal the original controllers.
> Boot -r is not helping. Every time I try to initialize an
> A1000 I get an error that says it is not a valid vxdisk
> object or driver. Despite this VMSA actually went out at
> one point and created a private region on the A1000. Still
> unable to bring the A1000's under VMSA control. Is this
> possibly a device link problem or have I made some fatal error
> somewhere?