Could it be that the reason dynamic configuration of disk drives is not
working for you is that the ldev you want to configure is already owned by
a logged on session?


At 10:53 AM 2001-03-05 -0600, Carl McNamee wrote:
>I'm curious if this process has worked for others when dealing with disk
>drives.  Every time I've tried it the process failed because it could not
>find the drive.  My process now it to add the hardware, boot the system, and
>then configure it dynamically.
>
>Thoughts?  Comments?
>
>Carl McNamee
>Systems Administrator
>Billing Concepts
>(210) 949-7282
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lars Appel [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 3:18 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Adding Discs
>
>
>Unless I am missing something obvious, you should not even have to
>take down the system for adding the drives to an HASS enclosure. So
>the steps would be something in the line of...
>
>  - set proper SCSI ids
>  - plug in the new drives
>  - use IOCONFIG to add LDEVs
>  - use VOLUTIL to NEWVOL or NEWSET
>
>It might be a good idea to first run the drives in a NEWSET for a
>while, exercise them a little (and maybe also use that extra volume
>set to play/exercise with seldom-used VOLUTIL commands or NEWACCT
>options like ONVS/HOMEVS) and finally scratchvol them and add them
>to the desired volume set.
>
>Lars (only speaking for myself here)

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