Mediainit Generic Problem Workaround document

Method II: Disable Online diagnostics before executing mediainit(1)
A. Disable using monconfig(1M)
1) Shutdown diagnostic with monconfig.
2) Check if the disk monitor process "disk_em" is still around (ps -aef | grep
disk_em).
3) Using mediainit(1) format the storage media.
4) After completion of format operation, re-start diagnostics with monconfig.
# /etc/opt/resmon/lbin/monconfig
================================================================
=================== Event Monitoring Service =======
=================== Monitoring Request Manager =======
================================================================
EVENT MONITORING IS CURRENTLY ENABLED.
EMS Version : A.04.20.31.02
STM Version : D.04.00
=================================================================
============== Monitoring Request Manager Main Menu ========
=================================================================
Note: Monitoring requests let you specify the events for monitors
to report and the notification methods to use.
Select:
(S)how monitoring requests configured via monconfig
(C)heck detailed monitoring status
(L)ist descriptions of available monitors
(A)dd a monitoring request
(D)elete a monitoring request
(M)odify an existing monitoring request
(E)nable Monitoring
(K)ill (disable) monitoring
(H)elp
(Q)uit
Enter selection: [s] K
=================================================================
======================= Disable Monitoring ============
=================================================================
Hardware event monitoring watches the system for hardware
problems. If you shut this facility down, the system will no
longer be able to alert you to many hardware problems.