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husrad

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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
 
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?
 
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
 
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