Specifications

Removing Hot-Plug SSA Disk Drives
Review the information in “Disk Drive Options” on page 307 before removing a disk
drive.
Note: SSA bays require a carrier in all six slots of each 6-pack assembly. Either an
SSA drive in a carrier or a blank carrier must be in each SSA drive position. To
add an SSA drive, you must first remove the blank carrier from the slot.
To remove an SSA hot-plug disk drive, perform the following steps:
1. Back up the information from the disk drive to another drive.
2. Deconfigure the drive you are removing from the system.
See the
AIX System Management Guide: Operating System and Devices to
deconfigure the SSA disk drive. This publication is located on the
AIX
Documentation
CD. Access the documentation information by loading the
documentation CD onto the hard disk or by mounting the CD in the CD-ROM
drive.
3. If you have not already done so, remove the front cover as described in
“Removing the Covers” on page 301.
4. Remove the disk drive bay cover from the disk drive bay.
5. Log in as root user.
6. At the command line, type smitty.
7. Select Devices.
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