Solaris SVM error when attaching a new disk – metattach I/O Error

I was trying to increase a metadevice with another disk but I was getting an I/O error

root@solaris:~ # metattach d200 /dev/rdsk/emcpower46c
metattach: solaris: /dev/dsk/emcpower46c: I/O error

Nothing strange was appearing in the emcpower disk

root@solaris:~ # powermt display dev=emcpower46
Pseudo name=emcpower46a
Symmetrix ID=000287752010
Logical device ID=01A1
state=alive; policy=SymmOpt; priority=0; queued-IOs=0
==============================================================================
—————- Host ————— – Stor – — I/O Path – — Stats —
### HW Path I/O Paths Interf. Mode State Q-IOs Errors
==============================================================================
3072 pci@8,600000/SUNW,emlxs@1/fp@0,0 c1t5006048449AFD288d18s0 FA 9aA active alive 0 0
3073 pci@8,600000/SUNW,emlxs@2/fp@0,0 c2t5006048449AFD287d18s0 FA 8aA active alive 0 0

A friend here at work asked if the disk has a label. It didn’t have one.

selecting emcpower46e
[disk formatted]
Disk not labeled. Label it now? yes

After that I was able to increase the metadevice.

root@solaris:~ # metattach d200 /dev/rdsk/emcpower46c
d200: component is attached

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