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

> ----------
> From:         Gill, Geoffrey L.[SMTP:GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Wednesday, April 10, 2002 9:23 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      AIX Disk questions
>
> 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 this
> for
> those disks. I've never seen this before so I'm not sure how to
> "initialize"
> if you will to get them to show up in Smitty, can't see them there. I'll
> be
> using these for my disk pools and DB and Log mirrors.
>
> hdisk18        none                None
> hdisk19        none                None
> hdisk20        none                None
> hdisk21        none                None
> hdisk22        none                None
> hdisk23        none                None
> hdisk24        none                None
> hdisk33        none                None
> Others show this:
>
> hdisk25        000143405656e7ba    None
> hdisk26        000143405657922b    None
> hdisk27        000143405657e7d1    None
> hdisk28        00014340565826e1    None
>
> Thanks for the help. Oh, lsdev -Cc disk does show the disks.
>
>
> Geoff Gill
> TSM Administrator
> NT Systems Support Engineer
> SAIC
> E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com <mailto:gillg AT saic DOT com>
> Phone:  (858) 826-4062
> Pager:   (877) 905-7154
>