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RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
Commenting out the missing bits in /usr/lpp/bosinst/tape/tapefiles1 let the mksysb complete. The consol of hdisk5 and hdisk6 will happen over xmas as there will be no-one in production. Really appreciate the help you've given! -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
Thanks! It certainly does look like that. What baffles me is why it didn't happen when I made the tape after the rootvg mirror. I just restored tapefiles1 from the mksysb tape to another directory and it's identical to the one currently in the /usr/lpp/bosinst/tape directory. A random restore of... -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
Hi, I tried making another mksysb tape before committing to the consolidation of hdisk5 & hdisk 6. Even though mksysb before the mirroring of rootvg I now get this: =================== Creating information file (/image.data) for rootvg.... Creating tape boot image......ln: 0653-421... -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
The site actually appears to have all the 4.3 docs! Thanks! (too bad there's no such thing as a move lv command) -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
I'll definitely do more backups! I'll see if I can find the 4.3 docs that cover that vintage cplv. I really, really, hate not having a test box to try all this on and am feeling a good deal of trepidation about this, but don't appear to have much choice. This should be an interesting Thanksgiving. -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
It thought it was the last question - Do I need to do anything about allocating space on hdisk5 or will the lvm take care of assigning physical space for the moved lv on its own? -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
That took longer than expected. We now have a mirrored rootvg and I'll now try to consolidate the file systems on hdisk5 and hdisk6 in order to get the count down to 6 drives so I can mirror within the two six packs we have. Many thanks for you help. One further Q and I think I'll be set to... -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
Thanks! I'll give that a try tonight. I'm still seeing files created in /tmp that don't look like they belong there, but the number is significantly smaller than it was before. -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
Well, that didn't work out as planned. Mksysb kept failing. We use cpio and native AIX backup for the daily tapes and I figured mksysb would probably have no great issues. Shows what I know. Mksysb -X -i kept throwing errors that eventually led to the conclusion that it didn't have enough room... -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
Thanks! I know what I'll be doing this weekend. I'll give all this a shot and we'll see what happens. -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
I think I've got this clear now- Mirror the rootvg: 1. Install hdiskN in the sixpack that doesn't contain rootvg 2. Run cfgmgr to get system to recognize hdiskN 3. extendvg rootvg hdiskN 4. mirrorvg -S rootvg hdiskN 5. bosboot -ad /dev/hdisk0 6. bootlist -m normal hdisk0 hdisk1 cd0 Questions... -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
Correct: the physical layout is 4 HD in on bay and 3 in the other. The other drives I removed when I found that they weren't part of a raid or mirror array. The lspv was showing hdiskNN blank blank for the 5 'spare' drives. As far as the pvg0 and pvg1: sorry, my confusion (physical/logical... -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
I was going to have access to the machine over the weekend, the Northeast 'snow event' and loss of power to all our systems made life a bit miserable yesterday. This AM I pulled the 5 drives that weren't doing anything out of the machine and it doesn't look like the 7 drives are part of a... -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
DukeSSD, There are two other SCSI cards in the box that have external connectors which was why I thought of trying to use the spare Dell 210S. I'm not in the office today and don't have remote access, but I'll get an equipment listing on Monday. Do you know if it is even possible to use the... -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
haexpert, I'm moving in that direction. If I can convince my boss I'll buy the bits I need for an external and then do a 'refresh' on the internal drives. Don't know how long this box is supposed to run. Thanks for the suggestion. franz -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
Duke, Appreciate the pointer. I didn't have the Service Guide. Do you know if I'd need to buy a separate SCSI card for the new 6pack? Or, even better, if I could use an external SCSI box (we have a spare Dell 210S array) without cracking into the insides of this box? Franz -
RS6000/F40 Six Pack PN
Inherited an RS6000/F40 running a corporate wide Manufacturing app on AIX 4.3.3. Have been tasked with adding disks to the system. It has two six packs that are full and I need to add another. Anyone know the PN or FRU's for the bits I need (Cage, Backplane, cables)? I can find all kinds of...
