Originally posted by: enidvx

Hello to all,
I'm having some problems detecting 2 physical disks on AIX 5.3
The cfgmgr command gives this output:
Method error (/etc/methods/cfgfcparray -l hdisk13 ):
0514-051 Device to be configured does not match the physical
device at the specified connection location.
Method error (/etc/methods/cfgfcparray -l hdisk16 ):
0514-051 Device to be configured does not match the physical
device at the specified connection location.

The disks are on a SAN storage DS4700, the other disks are detected correctly.
How can this be solved?
Thanks,
Enid
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Originally posted by: enidvx

Hello to all,

I'm explaining in few words the scenario I have and the solution I found:

This was a LPAR not a standalone pseries.
The 2 disks not being recognized (hdiskX,hdiskY) were part of a volume group for the FlashCopy function. The scheme (of flashcopy function) is like this:

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hdiskA

--

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hdiskX

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hdiskB

--

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hdiskY

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where hdiskA,hdiskB part of ABvg
and hdiskX,hdiskY part of FCvg
The 2 disks (hdiskX,hdiskY) were not shown at all with lspv command.

With "lsattr -E -l hdiskX" I noticed this part here "pvid none"

The solution to the problem was like below:
1- rmdev -dl hdiskX
2- rmdev -dl hdiskY
3- disable flashcopy
4- recreate/enalbe flashcopy
5- cfgmgr (doesn't show problems)

Best Regards,
Enid
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