Re: Replacing Failing SSA Disk

From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Tue Mar 09 2004 - 11:50:50 EST


looks good...assuming you don't have the failing disk as part of a
hardware array...

Tim Muller wrote:

>I am getting an SSA_DISK_ERR4 error on my J40 running
>AIX 4.3.3. The disk is in a mirrored VG. I have
>never replaced a disk on a running system before, so
>I'd feel better if someone would look over the
>procedure I'm planning to follow and let me know if I
>am overlooking anything. Thanks very much.
>
>unmirrorvg oravg hdisk17
>reducevg oravg hdisk17
>rmdev -l hdisk17 -d
>[replace disk drive, let the drive be renamed hdisk17]
>extendvg oravg hdisk17
>mirrorvg oravg
>
>
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>Hamilton Co. Dept. of Job & Family Services
>Cincinnati, OH USA
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