[Q] How to replace hot spare disk on SSA D40???

From: aaa (mccdba_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: 30 Jun 2004 05:20:21 -0700

We have IBM SSA D40 disk array. On loop-A there have 7 disks configured as
RAID5 and one hot spare disk. The hot spare disk 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 disk status from "spare" to "free" before I use "rmdev -dl pdisk3"
to remove it?

Thanks.

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