Removing the higher level "PSEUDO DEVICE" in the path
might also save you a few lines of display in your
SYSGEN/IO List Path command.
Or you may want to keep the Pseudo Devices, if you're
going to put new drives back on the same paths. Depends
on how important it is to you.
Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilles Schipper [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 10:57 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Taking HD's off HP, paths still present
>
>
> Not to worry.
>
> You can safely ignore the messages, but ...
>
> If you want them not to reappear, simply remove those devices
> from your i/o
> configuration via sysgen, keep the new configuration to config.sys and
> reboot with a start norecovery.
>
> When you're back up again, you should create a new slt tape.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
>
> At 10:44 AM 2003-12-29, you wrote:
> > We had another hard drive fail this weekend. I got called in
> >saturday to take care of it. It was a bad time all around. There
> >is a question at the end if you want to skip strait to it.
> >Background info..
> > Our box has 4 internal 9g drives, and 6 ext. 9g drives in a
> >rack next to our main box. We also have 6 2G drives in an
> >enclosure sitting on top of the hp. That enclosure has had 4
> >drives fail this year. The 4th being this weekend, most likey
> >due to heat from being on top of the server. When I called HP
> >they at first said that the part and a tech were on it's way but
> >then the tech called a bit later and said that he couldn't come
> >out. He said that the enclosure hasn't been on our support
> >contract for 2 years. I of course told him that can't be right
> >because i've only been here for a little over a year and i've
> >personally seen 3 drives replaced. He looked it up and said we
> >were lucky that it was overlooked those 3 times. He wanted like
> >$4,000 to come out and replace 1 2g drive. We told him nevermind
> >and ended up just unplugging the whole enclosure since they were
> >only 2g drives anway. Free space is not a problem right now...
> >
> > I booted with our last cslt tape, used volutil to scratch and
> >add our remaining drives to the master volume set. I then
> >reloaded the last full backup, and friday nights data backup,
> >not including the log files when I was told to skip by hp. I
> >booted up and everything works fine. Still plenty of free
> >space..
> >
> >Question:
> > I notice when I boot up I get error messages that path
> >10/4/0.20-26 can't be mounted. I know those were the 6 drives
> >that I took out. When I rebuilt the master volume set I didn't
> >add those drives back in.
> > Where do I need to remove those paths so that system can stop
> >looking for them. I don't think it causes a problem since I know
> >the drives are not there and everything is working normally. It
> >would just be nice if I dindn't have to see any errors messages
> >during startup..
> >
> >Any info would be much appricated,
> >Thanks,
> >Gehan Gehale
> >
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