Users Guide

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omconfig Prepare to Remove Physical Disk
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Does my controller support this feature? See "Supported Features."
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Use the following omconfig command syntax to prepare a physical disk for removal. See "Prepare to Remove" for more information.
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Complete Syntax
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omconfig storage pdisk action=remove controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
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where id is the controller ID. The <PDISK> variable specifies the physical disk. See "pdisk=<PDISKID> Parameter" for more information.
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To obtain these values, you would enter omreport storage controller to display the controller IDs and then enter omreport storage pdisk controller=ID to
display the IDs for the physical disks attached to the controller.
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Example Syntax
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In this example, you want to prepare physical disk 3 on connector 0 of controller 1 for removal. On a SAS controller, the physical disk resides in enclosure 2.
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Example for SCSI, SATA, and ATA Controllers:
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To prepare to remove the physical disk described in this example, you would enter:
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omconfig storage pdisk action=remove controller=1 pdisk=0:3
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See "pdisk=<PDISKID> Parameter on SCSI, SATA, and ATA Controllers" and "Multiple Targets" for more information on physical disk specification. See "RAID
Controller Technology: SCSI, SATA, ATA, and SAS" to identify which technology a controller uses.
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Example for SAS Controllers:
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To prepare to remove the physical disk described in this example, you would enter:
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omconfig storage pdisk action=remove controller=1 pdisk=0:2:3
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See "pdisk=<PDISKID> Parameter on SCSI, SATA, and ATA Controllers" and "Multiple Targets" for more information on physical disk specification. See "SAS
RAID Controllers" to identify which controllers use SAS technology.
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omconfig Initialize Physical Disk
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Does my controller support this feature? See "Supported Features."
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Use the following omconfig command syntax to initialize a physical disk.
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