Recovering From An Incomplete Format Of A Physical Drive - IBM ServeRAID User Reference

Problem
The ServeRAID Manager program fails
to start, and the following error
message is displayed:
Can't find class
com.ibm.sysmgt.raidmgr.mgtGUI.
Launch

Recovering from an incomplete format of a physical drive

During formatting of a physical drive, if the format process is stopped by a system
reset, system shutdown, power outage, or by some other means, the physical drive
becomes inoperable.
Complete the following steps to enable the physical drive to communicate with the
ServeRAID controller again:
1. Note the channel of the ServeRAID controller to which the physical drive is
2. Note the SCSI ID of the physical drive.
3. Use the ipssend format function to restart the format of the physical drive. The
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Explanation
Your TCP/IP hosts file is not
configured for the local
server hostname.
connected.
syntax is: ipssend format controller channel sid
where:
v controller is the ServeRAID controller number (1–12)
v channel is the channel number for the device (1–4)
v sid is the SCSI ID for the device (0–15)
Action
Configure your TCP/IP hosts file for the local
server hostname.
1. Open the /etc/hosts file.
2. If TCP/IP networking is configured,
complete the following steps:
a. If the hostname of the server is
identified on the line starting with
127.0.0.1, remove the hostname from
this line.
b. On a new line, type the IP address of
the server.
c. Press the Tab key to the second
column and type the fully qualified
hostname.
d. Press the Tab key to the third column
and type the nickname for the server.
Note: The following is an example of
a completed line:
1.1.1.1 matrix.localdomain matrix
where 1.1.1.1 is the IP address of the
server and matrix is the hostname of
the server.
3. If TCP/IP networking is not configured,
type the server name in the third column
of the line that starts with 127.0.0.1.
Note: The following is an example of a
completed line:
127.0.0.1 localhost matrix
where matrix is the server name.
4. Restart the server for these changes to
take effect.