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bozy@pisem.net
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:29 am    Post subject: Stupid question about hard disks assigned to LPAR Reply with quote
Good day, everyone.

I really think my question is stupid, but I completely failed on adding two hard
disks to a newly created LPAR on 9117-570. Local IBM seems to be really slow
responding (or are they all on holidays?) so I decided to ask here.

The story:

we upgraded our 9117-570 with a second cabinet holding a 4-way CPU, some RAM,
some FC adapters, some Ethernet adapters and two SCSI disk drives, sitting on
the right side of a 6-pack (or is it a 6-pack?). Drives seemed to be powered up
during system power-up, no error codes I can see on the HMC, error logs all
empty. Now, I have created one more LPAR (in addition to 2 AIX LPARs already
existing) to experiment with Linux install. I have connected ALL storage
controllers (with 'required' flag set) to this LPAR, but I cannot see disks in
SMS menu!

When I look at boot device list in third LPAR, there is Ethernet controller (two
of them, actually, as it is a 4-port card), two DVD-RAM drives on an IDE bus
attached from the 1st cabinet (IBM mistake - they had to provide a backplane in
a second cabinet for second DVD-RAM drive, but that is not relevant for now).
I have checked existing LPARs and there are no additional hdisk-s available, so
two disks in the second cabinet are not connected to a storage controller in the
1st cabinet, I presume. I seem to be lost at this point.. anyone has any hints?
Obviously I am omitting something really simple.


Alex
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Michael Prix
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:51 pm    Post subject: Re: Stupid question about hard disks assigned to LPAR Reply with quote
AlexB wrote:
Quote:
I have connected ALL storage controllers (with
'required' flag set) to this LPAR, but I cannot see disks in SMS menu!

To make it shor:

boot device list: Devices, which have a bootblock.

So, you won't see virign disks in the SMS.

Boot from network or CD into the Linux-installer and you will find
thedDrives.

--
Michael Prix
We're Germans and we use Unix. That's a combination of two demographic
groups known to have no sense of humour whatsoever.
-- Hanno Mueller in de.comp.os.unix.programming
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Rafal Marchlewski
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:43 pm    Post subject: Re: Stupid question about hard disks assigned to LPAR Reply with quote
Michael Prix wrote:
Quote:
AlexB wrote:

I have connected ALL storage controllers (with
'required' flag set) to this LPAR, but I cannot see disks in SMS menu!


To make it shor:

boot device list: Devices, which have a bootblock.

So, you won't see virign disks in the SMS.

Boot from network or CD into the Linux-installer and you will find
thedDrives.


if You still can't see disks during installation, try to run LPAR from
Diagnostics CD and then use Array Manager to format disks (arrays)
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bozy@pisem.net
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:36 am    Post subject: Re: Stupid question about hard disks assigned to LPAR Reply with quote
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:51:31 +0200, Michael Prix <michael.prix@t-online.de>
wrote:

Quote:
AlexB wrote:
I have connected ALL storage controllers (with
'required' flag set) to this LPAR, but I cannot see disks in SMS menu!

To make it shor:

boot device list: Devices, which have a bootblock.

So, you won't see virign disks in the SMS.

Boot from network or CD into the Linux-installer and you will find
thedDrives.

Thanks a lot for a prompt reply! That was precisely the case. Once I started AIX
standalone diagnostics CD - two hard disks showed up on the list of devices for
testing. This behavior seems pretty different from old RS6000 machines SMS,
where all disks are present on the list of boot devices.

Alex
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