From: Bill Sadvary (sadvary@dickinson.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2005 - 14:21:46 EST
Since I was sure that no one else would be accessing the drive, or anything
on that bus, the risk seemed minimal enough and here's the procedure I
followed (from Benjamin Ingwersen)..
Power off the 5U Enclosure
Remove power cord from enslosure
Remove SCSI Cable that goes to the Adapter
Make sure that the replacement unit has the exact SAME SCSI
ID/jumper Settings.
Then when you hook it back up, make sure that you hook up the SCSI
cable
to the KZPEA first then the power cable then power up the unit.
This did, however, create a new tape device (tape1_*), no biggy. I deleted
the tape0 device with (thanks Steve Feehan)..
hwmgr show scsi (look up the id for tape0)
hwmgr delete -id N
and then renamed the new device back to tape0...
dsfmgr -m tape1 tape0
Thanks for the replies! (also recv'd replies from Alan Davis and T.
Horsnell)
-Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Sadvary [mailto:sadvary@dickinson.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 10:20 AM
> To: 'Tru64 Unix Managers'
> Subject: SDLT hotswap?
>
>
> I have a 160/320 SDLT (Part# 257319-B21) connected via a
> Compaq StorageWorks
> 5U Rackmount Enclosure (Part #274339-b21). This connects to
> an ES47 via a
> Dual PCI SE LVD Ultra adapter (3X-KZPEA-DB). The SDLT is the
> only device on
> the adapter.
>
> Can I hot swap this ailing drive?
>
> The 5U Enclosure manual doesn't mention anything about hot
> swapping. This
> is the type of enclosure that you to have manually connect
> the SCSI and
> power cables to the drive, not a side-in/side-out cableless
> type of deal.
>
> Can I power off the Enclosure and do the swap with the ES47
> online? Or,
> will I have to reboot? Am I also risking a system crash by
> doing this?
>
> Thanks!
> -Bill
>
>
>
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