Hot-Swap Disk Drives; Deconfiguring (Removing) Or Configuring A Disk Drive; Deconfiguring (Removing) - IBM 6C1 Service Manual

Hot-Swap Disk Drives

The following procedures cover removal and replacement of the hot-swap disk drives.
Note: You do not have to power off the system to remove a hot-swap disk drive from

Deconfiguring (Removing) or Configuring a Disk Drive

Use this procedure if you are removing or installing a drive while the system power is
turned on.

Deconfiguring (Removing)

1. Back up the information from the disk drive to another drive.
2. Log in as root user.
3. At the command line, type smitty.
4. Select System Storage Management (Physical and Logical Storage) and press
Enter.
5. Select Logical Volume Manager and press Enter.
6. Select Volume Groups and press Enter.
7. Select Set Characteristics of a Volume Group. and press Enter.
8. Select Remove a Physical Volume from a Volume Group.
9. Press F4 to list the available volume groups, then select the volume group name
and press Enter.
10. Press F4 to select a physical volume, and follow the instructions on the screen to
select the physical volume. Then press Enter.
11. Press F3s, Cancel, to go back to the first menu and select System Storage
Management (Physical and Logical Storage).
12. Select Removable Disk Management.
13. Select Remove a Disk.
14. Select the desired disk from the list on the screen and press Enter.
15. Follow the instructions on the screen to remove the drive.
16. When you are asked "Are you sure?," press Enter. The power LED on the drive
that you selected will remain on.
17. Remove the disk drive by pulling the disk drive lever toward you until it is
completely open. Then remove the disk drive from the slot. The LED on the top of
the slot will turn off when the disk drive is removed.
18. Press F10 to exit smitty.
the system. Before you perform these procedures, ensure that the customer has
taken 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-swap drive from the system before it has been removed from the system
configuration can cause unrecoverable data corruption.
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