Re: SSA adapter testing

From: Jim (jsmith_at_fluidmaster.com)
Date: 07/14/04


Date: 13 Jul 2004 16:18:11 -0700

Hello,

You can get around the 'device busy' message by killing the related
SSA daemon. Don't forget to unmount the affected file systems and vg
first.

Jim

ssuhaide@yahoo.com (Kam) wrote in message news:<f3669af.0407090043.1c92fbbb@posting.google.com>...
> As part of a test if an AIX server has two SSA adapters attached, is
> it possible to detach one of the ssa adapters (changing its status
> from Available to Defined) to test resilence via one of the smitty
> menu's or command line.
>
> If one tries an rmdev -l ssa0 for example naturally it will not let
> you do this (if already connected to a LIVE SSA) complaining that the
> resource is busy.
>
> Any ideas ?



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