failed boot drive (itanium)

[Chris Fadrowski]

Itanium rx4640 hpux 11.23v2

when a boot drive fails in a mirrored set;

what is the procedure to fix this.. i have a new drive to install.

do i have to break the mirror etc...? is there a doc that explains this that i can't find? there are EFI partitions in Itanium and i am not sure of the procedure.

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

Title: Replace failed root and non-root LVM disks on Itanium.
Document ID: KBRC00014036

US
http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000079971585

Europe
http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000079971585

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Andrew Rutter]

hi,

Pull the other disk out and wait a few minutes, you probably wont be able to break the mirror, and replace disk.

Do a fresh ioscan to find disk and insf to recreate device files
And then basically you have to partition the disk up with idisk and restore/sync the mirror as normal with LVM procedure.
Then you will need to copy the Diagnostics onto the Service Partition HPSP.

Andy

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

Here is the official disk replacement white paper.

http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-1236/When_Good_Disks_Go_Bad.pdf

HTH,
Devender