Hot-Plug Disk Drive Removal - IBM pseries 630 6C4 Installation Manual

7. Select Add a Physical Volume to a Volume Group.
8. Fill in the fields for the drive you are adding to the system. Press F4 for a list of
selections.
See the AIX System Management Guide: Operating System and Devices to finish
the drive configuration. This publication is available at the following Web address:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/aix/library/. Select Technical Publications. This
publication is also contained on the AIX Documentation CD. The documentation is
made accessible by loading the documentation CD files onto the hard disk or by
mounting the CD in the CD-ROM drive.
9. Press F10 to exit smitty.

Hot-Plug Disk Drive Removal

Attention:
appropriate actions to back up the data for the drive you are removing, and that the
drive has been removed from the configuration. Physically removing a hot-plug drive
from the system before it has been removed from the system configuration can cause
unrecoverable data corruption. Refer to "Deconfiguring (Removing) or Configuring a
Disk Drive" on page 104.
To remove a hot-plug disk drive, do the following:
1. Before removing the disk drive, ensure all data has been saved.
2. Deconfigure the disk drive you are removing from the system. See "Deconfiguring
(Removing) or Configuring a Disk Drive" on page 104.
3. Open the rack front door on a Model 6C4.
Open the front bezel door on a Model 6E4.
4. Remove the front bezel as described in "Front Bezel Removal (Model 6C4)" on
page 61 or the disk drive access cover as described in "Disk Drive Access Cover
Removal" on page 59.
5. Locate the hot-plug disk drive you plan to remove. If you are removing a faulty disk
drive, a lit amber colored LED located at the front right side of each disk drive will
help you isolate the faulty drive.
6. Log in as root user.
7. At the command line, type smitty.
8. Select System Storage Management (Physical and Logical Storage).
9. Select Removable Disk Management.
10. Select Remove a Disk.
Before you perform these procedures, ensure that the customer has taken
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