Re: pdisk, no hdisk

From: Lloyd Dieter (ldieter@SNRGY.COM)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 06:43:22 EST


Well,

I tried that.

Tried: smitty -> devices -> SSA RAID Arrays -> change/show use of an SSA
physical disk, and this gives me "there are no items of this type".

Also tried deleting the pdisk & re-running cfgmgr, and it just comes back
the same way.

I've sort of come to the conclusion that it can't be done easily.

-Lloyd

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 07:52:01 -0600
Bill Verzal <Bill_Verzal@BCBSIL.COM> wrote:

> Go into the SSA smit menus and change the pdisk# from whatever it is
> (RAID Array Candidate, Hot-spare, etc) to "AIX System Disk".
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> 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?
>
> TIA...
>
> -Lloyd
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