Preparing To Remove A Disk Drive Or Solid-State Drive From A System Or Logical Partition Controlled By Ibm I - IBM 8248-L4T Manual

Note: Completing a rebuild on a drive overwrites the data currently on the drive.
A Confirm Rebuild Disk Unit Data display similar to the following is shown.
Rebuilding the disk unit data might take several minutes for each disk
selected.
Press Enter to confirm having the data rebuilt.
q=Cancel to return and change your choice.
OPT Name PCI/SCSI Location
--- ------ -------------------------- ------------------------- ---------------
1 0000:58:01.0.0/0:4:0
q=Cancel t=Toggle
Figure 72. Example Confirm Rebuild Disk Unit Data display
6. To confirm that you want to rebuild the data on the drive, press Enter.
The message that the rebuild has begun is shown at the bottom of the Work with Disk Unit Recovery
display. The rebuild process might take several minutes to complete.
Preparing to remove a disk drive or solid-state drive from a system or
logical partition controlled by IBM i
Learn the actions you must take to properly remove a disk drive or solid-state drive.
Before removing a drive from a system or expansion unit that is controlled by IBM i, follow these steps:
1. Determine the protection status of the drive that you are replacing. For instructions, see "Determining
the IBM i disk drive or solid-state drive protection status" on page 103.
2. For mirrored disk drives on an IBM i system or logical partition, follow these steps to verify that the
drive you are replacing has been suspended:
a. Sign on with service level authority.
b. Type strsst on the command line of the IBM i session and press Enter.
c. Type your service tools user ID and service tools password on the Start Service Tools (STRSST)
Sign On display. Press Enter.
Remember: The service tools password is case-sensitive.
d. Select Work with disk units from the System Service Tools (SST) display. Press Enter.
e. Select Display Disk Configuration from the Work with Disk Units display. Press Enter.
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Disk drives or solid-state drives
Confirm Rebuild Disk Unit Data
Description
RAID Array Member
Status
Failed