remove no_hw status from ioscan

[Sunny Jaisinghani]

Hello All,

I want to remove devices with no_hw status from the ioscan output.

e.g.
ext_bus 20 0/6/0/0.8.0.28.1 fcparray NO_HW INTERFACE FCP Array Interface
target 73 0/6/0/0.8.0.28.1.1 tgt NO_HW DEVICE

Two VGs were migrated from Symetrix 3830 to CX3-40. The disks were connected to the FC card

So now since the storage has been changed there are lot of devices with hardware status as no_hw in ioscan. There is no device files associated with it.

I tried removing the status no_hw using the command

rmsf -k -v -H

But this is not working

Is reboot only the solution????

Also will reboot disable those two FC cards, update the LVMTAB and remove the two VGs. I have attached the output of ioscan which shows the hardware tree.

Waiting for responses
Thanks in advance

Sunny

[Jeeshan · Accepted solution]

Hi

Without reboot you cannot remove the no_hw status from ioscan output.

[Jeeshan]

look at this thread

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=105270

[Asif Sharif]

Hi Sunny,

you can attempt to rmsf -H to remove the devices files.

If the HW entries still exists then a reboot should clear the rest.


Regards,
Asif Sharif

[Sunny Jaisinghani]

Yes.. Indeed i will need a reboot.