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  • 1.  Disks not accessible (Aix 7.1)

    Posted Wed July 23, 2014 08:52 AM
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    Originally posted by: kbegAIT


    We bought an used AIX 7.1 machine that came with couple of 10k300GB from Hitachi. We can see these PV in a list, however they are not accessible. Disks are not connected to array card and they are visible as other SCSI disks. And idea how to solve this?

     

    Best regards,

    Kristina



  • 2.  Re: Disks not accessible (Aix 7.1)

    Posted Wed July 23, 2014 01:21 PM
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    Originally posted by: GarlandJoseph


    Did you try to use them: add to a volume group?   What does lspv shows?  What does lsdev -Ccdisk show?  Are there any errors in the error log (errpt)?



  • 3.  Re: Disks not accessible (Aix 7.1)

    Posted Thu July 24, 2014 05:15 AM
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    Originally posted by: kbegAIT


    Add to a volume group: Open failure on hdisk, unable to create volume group.

    lspv: 2 original disks with their PVID and rootvg, active; and Hitachi disks have no PVID and none vg.

    hdisk0          000c466f6e29d6b2                    rootvg          active
    hdisk1          005b86dfa8763d7d                    None            
    hdisk2          none                                               None        
    hdisk3          none                                               None            
    hdisk4          none                                               None            
    hdisk5          none                                               None            
    hdisk6          none                                               None            
    hdisk7          none                                               None   

    lsdev -Cc disk: 

    hdisk0 Available 1S-08-00-3,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
    hdisk1 Available 1S-08-00-4,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
    hdisk2 Available 1S-08-00-5,0 Other SCSI Disk Drive
    hdisk3 Available 1S-08-00-8,0 Other SCSI Disk Drive
    hdisk4 Available 1S-08-01-3,0 Other SCSI Disk Drive
    hdisk5 Available 1S-08-01-4,0 Other SCSI Disk Drive
    hdisk6 Available 1S-08-01-5,0 Other SCSI Disk Drive
    hdisk7 Available 1S-08-01-8,0 Other SCSI Disk Drive

    errpt:

    16F35C72 Disk operation error

    Other:

    When I try to assign a PVID to disk it says: Method error, cannot access a device.

    When I try to format disks it says: it is recommended that diagnostics be run on this disk drive.

    When I run diagnostics it says: 721-108 a bus failure occured.



  • 4.  Re: Disks not accessible (Aix 7.1)

    Posted Thu July 24, 2014 12:43 PM
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    Originally posted by: GarlandJoseph


    Can you do errpt -a to a file and upload.  Also post lsdev -CF "name parent" | grep hdisk

     



  • 5.  Re: Disks not accessible (Aix 7.1)

    Posted Thu July 24, 2014 12:46 PM
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    Originally posted by: GarlandJoseph


    can you save output of errpt -a to afile and upload, post output of lsdev -CF "name parent" and lscfg -v; do you have hardware support?



  • 6.  Re: Disks not accessible (Aix 7.1)

    Posted Thu July 24, 2014 01:32 PM
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    Originally posted by: GarlandJoseph


    What is the model and machine type for you system?



  • 7.  Re: Disks not accessible (Aix 7.1)

    Posted Fri July 25, 2014 09:47 AM
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    Originally posted by: kbegAIT


    All logs attached below. Type: IBM 9114-275.

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    log-lsdev.txt   1 KB 1 version
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    log-errpt.txt   663 KB 1 version
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    log-lscfg.txt   10 KB 1 version
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    log-lsdev-hdisk.txt   144 B 1 version


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