Locate failed PV

[jaki]

hi @ll,

is there a possibility to locate a failed Phisical Volume?
one of my disks failed ( state missing in lsvg -p )
and i have a 3 shelfes full of disks ... and wonder if there is the possibility to locate the failed disk, that i can remove it?

I have a F50 with 3 6Packs full of disks.

Mark

 

[DSMARWAY]

hi ,

what are the type of disks ?

Do they have LEDs on them if so you can dd something to the disk and see if the light stays on solid , and to interrupt dd press ctrl+c , light should go back to normal

i.e. dd if=/dev/rhdisk? of=/dev/null bs=64k


HTH

 

[jaki]

they're SCSI disks ... but i found that the ser.Nr. is on a small sticker on the head-side of the disks, so i can get the S/N with "lscfg -vl hdisk10" and then look for the disk with that S/N.

jaki

 

[Yegolev]

i belive the SCSI-ID numbering starts on the left:
|8|9|10|11|12|13|

but check the Service Guide to verify. now, which backplane will depend on how it's cabled...

IBM Certified -- AIX 4.3 Obfuscation

 

[theycallmetim]

run diag

-> task selection

-> Hot Plug Task

-> SCSI Hot Swap Manager

-> Identify Device Attached to SCSI Hot Swap Enclosure Device

Select you hdisk from the list.

The identification LED will start to blink on the drive you picked.

 

[johny2K]

can you use "errpt" command and look at hardware error?

might be of help.

 

[jaki]

thanks for your responses ....

jaki

 

[jg156310]

LO,

My method to identify a scsi disk :
smit pdam
change/show pci scsi raid drive status
identify a drive
identify (other choice = normal)
<select the drive>