hardware problem

[husrad]

hi all,
on one of our aix servers there is a damaged hard disk, is there a way to change it without having to reboot the server??
thank you

 

[zaxxon]

Hi,

is the disk hot-swap-able (manual of machine should tell)? If yes, you can just draw it out of the box, BUT -> Is there the rootvg or a part of it (lspv)? Is it mirrored (the vgname that's on the damaged harddisk ->
lsvg -l <vgname>

If there are at least twice the amount of PPs to LPs, there will be a mirror there.

If there is a part of the rootvg on it and it's not mirrored, you'll have a problem.

What AIX do you use? How did you notice, that a harddrive is damaged? What does &quot;errpt -a -dH&quot; say? What does lsdev -C <harddiskname> tell you?

 

[zaxxon]

Forgot to say, that if it's connected to a raid-controller, check manual or google it, but there is a very good chance to just draw it and replace it with a new one.

A bit more info about the system might help us to help you.

lslpp -l| grep -E &quot;bos.mp|bos.up&quot;
lsdev -C| grep disk
lsvg
lsdev -C| grep -i raid

 

[MoshiachNow]

Also,

refer to:

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docvie...k%22&uid=aix181eb0705cbfa1cc985256816006a0169

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