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Re: add a second boot hdd

 
Nelson Chamba
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add a second boot hdd

fols,

 

How do i add a second or hdd on a server running HP-UX B11.11. The second HDD it´s broken and i have a spare one.

 

cheers. 

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Torsten.
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Re: add a second boot hdd

Here is all you need:

When_Good_Disks_Go_Bad_WP
http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01911837/c01911837.pdf


Hope this helps!
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Torsten.
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Re: add a second boot hdd

>> Folks i have a HP disk system 2405 running with 8 hdd and the hdd of the position 7 is bad, how do i replace it because it is mirroring with the one disk on the position 8.


Opening several threads about a single topic is always confusing.

If you are sure you already found the bad disks, follow the steps from the manual.

Since this is a direct fibre attached disk there is something special.


After you replaced the disk, the new disk is still shown as "NO_HW" in ioscan, because the driver does not allow access.

After this ioscan was run, look into the syslog.log file.

You will find the advise to run fcmsutil against nport ID 0x____ as follows (find the FC HBA device like td0 from your ioscan first:

# fcmsutil /dev/td0 replace_dsk 0x____

then run ioscan again, the disk now should be CLAIMED again.

Hope this helps!
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Torsten.

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Nelson Chamba
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Re: add a second boot hdd

Thank you,

I download the book and it´s always good to teach people how to fish and not just giving him a fresh fish.

cheers.
Nelson Chamba
Regular Advisor

Re: add a second boot hdd

Hi Torsten, good book love it.

 

cheers.