Removing a HotSwap disk, any issues?

[Gino Castoldi_2]

Hi,

Background: L2000/rp5450, HP-UX 11.0
18Gb LVD HotSwap disk drive (mounted in front bay).

I recently installed a new 18GB HotSwap drive into the front bay of our L2000 server.
I powered off the server first, installed the disk drive and then powered it back on.
I ran 'ioscan -funC disk' and
diskinfo -v /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0' to see that the new disk was identified by the server and it looks fine.

I need to remove this drive and install in into another L2000 server.
Sequence of events: Power off server, remove the disk drive, power the server back on.

My question is this, will there be any issues from removing this disk drive?
Also can I just remove the disk because it's a HotSwap type of disk drive?

(10 points to any good answer).
Thank you Gino.

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

Gino,

If you don't have any mounted filesystems on it and it doesn't belong to any VG, then HOTSWAP it (remove it). Just make sure you grag the correct one.

You DON'T need to shut down your system.

live free or die
harry

[Helen French]

Hi Gino:

Some points:

1) The disks in the L class servers are hot swappable. You DONT need to shutdown the server. You can replace, remove or install disks online !

2) In your case, if you just want to remove that disk, then do it online. But before that, if this disk is already part of any volume group or any other LVM structure, then get rid of that first. You need to delete or remove the LV information, VG information from this disk.

HTH,
Shiju

[Gino Castoldi_2]

Hi,

I forgot to mention that the disk is not part of any volume group and it does not have a filesystem or mount point.
The only thing that was done to it was to "dd"
some data to it to make sure the disk was ok.

(10 points to any good answer).
Thank you Gino.