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1. Select Work with disk unit recovery from the Work with Disk Units display. Press Enter.
2. Select Replace configured unit on the Work with Disk unit recovery display. Press Enter.
3. Select the configured disk drive that you are exchanging (suspended drive) on the Select Configured Unit to
Replace display. Press Enter.
4. Select the disk drive that you just installed on the Select Replacement Unit display. This drive has a
non-configured status.
Note: In some cases, it might take several minutes for a new disk drive to display. Repeat these steps until the
new drive is shown.
Press Enter.
5. Press Enter on the Confirm Replace of Configured Unit display to confirm your choice for replacement.
The replacement process might take several minutes to complete.
When the process is complete, the Work with Disk unit recovery display is shown.
6. Press F3 (Exit) to return to the Work with disk units display.
7. Select Display disk configuration on the Work with disk units display.
8. Select Display disk configuration status on the Display Disk Configuration display.
Mirrored status shows Resuming. When complete, the mirrored status shows Active. This process might take
several minutes to complete. You can either monitor this display to completion, or press F3 (Exit) three times, and
then press Enter to return to the main menu.
20. Go to "MAP 2410: 7031-D24 or 7031-T24 repair verification" on page 42 to verify the repair. For a
server-level repair verification, go to your host server's service information.
This completes this procedure.
Deactivating a disk drive by using AIX
Concurrent maintenance can be accomplished on disk drives without removing power to either the
enclosure or the server. Use the following procedure in conjunction with the removal and replacement
procedures to concurrently remove or replace a disk drive using the AIX operating system.
To deactivate the disk drive and disk drive slot and do concurrent maintenance on your disk drives, do
the following steps:
1. Log in as root user or use CE Login.
2. At the command line, type diag and press Enter.
3. Press Enter to continue.
4. On the Function Selection display, select Task Selection.
5. Select Hot Plug Task.
6. Select RAID Hot Plug Devices.
7. Select the adapter that is connected to the array that contains the disk drive you want to deactivate
and press Enter.
8. Select Commit.
9. On the Identify and Remove Resources display, select Identify.
10. Select the disk drive you want to remove and press Enter.
The disk drive slot enters the Identify state. The concurrent maintenance light for the slot begins
flashing. Verify that the flashing light corresponds to the location for the disk drive you want to
deactivate, and press Enter.
The disk drive slot exits the Identify state.
11. On the Identify and Remove Resources display, select Remove.
A list of the disk drives that you can remove is displayed. If the disk drive is not displayed in the
list, ask your system administrator to put the disk drive in the Failed state before continuing with
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