Re: AIX 4.3.3: Problem adding hdiskN's to the system

From: A. Fuentes (alvarof2_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/29/03 

Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 02:19:03 GMT

Yes the ALL the hard drives are IBM UltraStar 9.1GB 10000RPM

Like I described, I never had this problem before with this hardware setup
(scsiII adapter) and the same disks. I could pass them effortless from
defined to active until now.

I also thought of some sort of connectivity problem, but it is not the
scsiII cable because
the RS/6000 bios is seeing them correctly with their respective ids, as I
described initially.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

Best,

A. Fuentes

"Karhu" <karhu@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:BAD29A38.34C1%karhu@nospam.net...
> On 27/4/03 11:59 pm, in article
> WgZqa.39163$q02.1371809@twister.austin.rr.com, "A. Fuentes"
> <alvarof2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Tom:
> >
> > I have done this (mkdev -l hdiskN), but it replies with:
> >
> > "Method Error: (/etc/methods/cfgscdisk):
> > 0514-050: Cannot perform the requested functions because the
> > specified device was not detected."
> >
> > Yet, the boot bios detected it correctly, and it appears as "defined"
with
> > the correct scsi id's.
> >
> > Any other ideas that I should consider?
> >
> >
> > A.Fuentes
> > 512-297-9937
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Tom Hoffmann" <trh411@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> > news:pan.2003.04.27.20.14.34.638813@earthlink.net...
> >> On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 05:43:33 +0000, A. Fuentes wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Fellow AIX Netters:
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to add 4 scsi harddrives to an RS/6000 running AIX 4.3.3.0
> > Each
> >>> device (Hard drive) was recognized by the BIOS at boot, and is listed
> > via
> >>> lsdev -C as defined (not available) with their correct and respective
> > scsi
> >>> id numbers.
> >>> (The disks are connected to the Machine via an scsi card labeled as
> > "scsi1"
> >>> and "available")
> >>
> >> mkdev -l hdiskN
> >>
> >> should make a defined device available.
> >
> >
> Sounds like there is a fault with the disks and the OS? Are these IBM
disks?
> I know AIX works with some third party disks but nor others. Problems I've
> seen are as you've described - they sort of work but don't.
>
> I usually add disks by plugging them in and booting the system. Disks
should
> automatically show as available.
>