Re: [Q] How to remove hot spare disk from SSA D40 array?

From: bbb bb (mccux1_at_HOTMAIL.COM)
Date: 06/29/04

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    Date:         Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:48:36 +0000
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    Thank you for answer. the F4 have three choice "system disk", "array
    candicate disk" or "hot spare" disk". What I want is change to "free".

    Any ideal?

    >From: Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM
    >Reply-To: IBM AIX Discussion List <aix-l@Princeton.EDU>
    >To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    >Subject: Re: [Q] How to remove hot spare disk from SSA D40 array?
    >Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:56:53 +0200
    >
    >move cursor on this disc, press return
    >
    >then you see something like
    >
    > SSA RAID Manager ssa0
    > SSA Physical Disk pdisk32
    > CONNECTION address 002035E2781100D
    > Current Use Hot Spare Disk
    >+
    >
    >and can change "current use" with tab-key or f4
    >
    >
    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of
    >bbb bb
    >Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 4:48 PM
    >To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    >Subject: [Q] How to remove hot spare disk from SSA D40 array?
    >
    >We have IBM SSA D40 disk array. For loop-A there have 7 disks as RAID5
    >and one hot spare disk. The hot spare look like have bad sectors and I
    >want replace it. I use "smit" to check disk:
    >
    >smit
    > SSA RAID Array
    > Change/Show Use of an SSA Physical Disk
    ># SSA physical disks that are hot spares. x
    > x # Disks in Loop A are:
    >x
    > x pdisk3 0040AA1DC6E000D spare good 18.2GB disk
    >
    >How to change it from "spare" to "free" before I use "rmdev -dl pdisk3"
    >to remove it?
    >
    >Thanks.
    >
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