From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 05:11:18 EST
I think it is more likely that the disk is defective. I've seen this sort
of behaviour in the past: the system recognizes that a device is present, so
you get a pdisk, but it can't be configured, so no hdisk.
You might try re-seating it; if it's been sitting idle for a while it may
have got stuck and re-seating it may be enough of a jolt to get it spinning
again.
More violent techniques are possible, but I'd be reluctant to try unless the
disk is not covered by a maintenance contract and you're prepared to junk
it.
Simon Green
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lloyd Dieter [mailto:ldieter@SNRGY.COM]
> Sent: 06 February 2003 02:31
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: pdisk, no hdisk
>
>
> All,
>
> I recently installed a couple of used SSA drives for a
> customer. After
> running cfgmgr, I get one of the drives with a pdisk, but no
> corresponding
> hdisk.
>
> I am aware that the most likely cause of this is that this drive was
> previously attached to an SSA raid controller, and now is not.
>
> Is there a way, without connecting to a raid controller, to
> "reset" this
> drive such that it can be used on this older non-raid SSA controller?
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