From: Sergio Luiz Novaes (algol@LCC.UFMG.BR)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 07:31:35 EST
I think you have done a diag test on this pdisk, if not I recommend you do
it to get a final error report.
Sergio Luiz Novaes
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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,
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> 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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