Create Customized Configuration Diskette; Delete Resource From Resource List; Disk Maintenance; Disk To Disk Copy - IBM p 655 series User Manual

Create Customized Configuration Diskette

This selection invokes the Diagnostic Package Utility Service Aid, which allows the user to create a
standalone diagnostic package configuration diskette.
The Standalone Diagnostic Package Configuration Diskette allows the following to be changed from the
console:
v Default refresh rate for a low function terminal (LFT)
The refresh rate used by the standalone diagnostic package is 60 Hz. If the display's refresh rate is 77
Hz, set the refresh rate to 77.
v Different async terminal console
You can create a console configuration file that allows a terminal attached to any RS232 or RS422
adapter to be selected as a console device. The default device is an RS232 TTY device attached to the
first standard serial port (S1).

Delete Resource from Resource List

Use this task to delete resources from the resource list.
Note: Only resources that were previously detected by the diagnostics and have not been deleted from
the Diagnostic Test List are listed. If no resources are available to be deleted, then none are listed.

Disk Maintenance

This service aid provides the following options for the fixed-disk maintenance:
v Disk to Disk Copy
v Display/Alter Sector

Disk to Disk Copy

Notes:
1. This service aid cannot be used to update to a different size drive. The service aid only supports
copying from a SCSI drive to another SCSI drive of similar size.
2. Use the migratepv command when copying the contents to other disk drive types. This command also
works when copying SCSI disk drives or when copying to a different size SCSI disk drive. Refer to
System Management Guide: Operating System and Devices for a procedure on migrating the contents
of a physical volume.
This publication is located on the AIX V4.3 Documentation CD. The documentation information is made
accessible by loading the documentation CD onto the hard disk or by mounting the CD in the CD-ROM
drive.
This selection allows you to recover data from an old drive when replacing it with a new drive. The service
aid recovers all logical volume manager (LVM) software reassigned blocks. To prevent corrupted data from
being copied to the new drive, the service aid stops if an unrecoverable read error is detected. To help
prevent possible problems with the new drive, the service aid stops if the number of bad blocks being
reassigned reaches a threshold.
To use this service aid, both the old and new disks must be installed in or attached to the system with
unique SCSI addresses. This requires that the new disk drive SCSI address must be set to an address
that is not currently in use and the drive be installed in an empty location. If there are no empty locations,
then one of the other drives must be removed. When the copy is complete, only one drive can remain
installed. Either remove the target drive to return to the original configuration, or perform the following
procedure to complete the replacement of the old drive with the new drive:
1. Remove both drives.
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