Author: "Gill, Geoffrey L." <GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 06:23:52 -0700
This is an AIX question so may be off subject a little. I just had a second SSA drawer installed with 16 disks, only 7 of them seem to be missing depending on how you want to look at them. LSPV shows
Author: "Davidson, Becky" <Becky.Davidson AT SLBG DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:59:08 -0500
Go in to diag, task selection, ssa service aids, and link verification. Scroll down to the adapter that they are connected to and see if you can see all of them and they have numbers in either a1 and
I'm assuming the disks you listed are the ones you CAN see. If you think you are missing disks, then there is a CHANCE that they are configured as 'ARRAY' disks and not 'AIX system disks'. Try: as ro
Author: "PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)" <bp3965 AT SBC DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:27:05 -0500
They have been defined and not available. U need to go to smitty and make it available. If they don't then use diag for SSA and look for loop how they are configured and I feel u need to just make av
Author: David Longo <David.Longo AT HEALTH-FIRST DOT ORG>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:02:18 -0400
If weverything was installed correctly and you rebooted or ran cfgmgr, then they should be there. Look at errpt and see if any errors, most likely will be some if not cabled correctly. Double check c
Author: Steve Argersinger <sargersi AT RUAN DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:07:20 -0500
Again, if all disks are available, I believe adding them to a volume group will "initialize" your disks. Seems to me that I've seen this before when disks came from IBM with previous data on them. Th
It is possible that the disks in question were previously used in a raid configuration. As such they won't configure as hdisks. Go into diag, service aids, ssa service aids and reformat them as AIX s
Author: Alex Paschal <AlexPaschal AT FREIGHTLINER DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:56:35 -0700
Geoffrey, What you probably need to do is Set Characteristics of a Volume Group Add a Physical Volume to a Volume Group Until the disks are part of a volume group, you won't be able to create LV's or
Author: "Coyle, Jack" <Jack.Coyle AT REXHEALTH DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:57:35 -0400
Try for i in 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 33 ; do chdev -l hdisk$i -a pv=yes done from the AIX command line when signed on as root (assumes ksh shell). Jack Coyle Rex Healthcare