Specifications

4-8 Sun StorEdge A1000 and A3x00/A3500FC Best Practices Guide • November 2002
4.4.1 Removing Ghost Drives
Use this procedure to remove ghost drives that are not Global hot spares. To remove
a phantom drive, perform the following steps through the controller shell.
Caution – Only trained and experienced Sun personnel should access the serial
port. You should have a copy of the latest Debug Guide. There are certain commands
that can destroy customer data or configuration information. No warning messages
appear if a potentially damaging command has been executed.
Note – This serial port procedure should be performed from the controller that
owns the LUN or a reboot may be necessary.
1. Enter the string:
2. Write down the nextphy value.
3. Enter the string:
A column of data is returned. Each column of data following the colon (:) equals
one channel.
4. Determine the channel that corresponds to the channel of the phantom drive.
The channels in the shell are 0-relative.
5. Enter the string:
6. Locate the first column that contains numbers after the colon (:).
■ If the nextphy value copied in step 2 is shown, proceed to step 7.
■ If the nextphy value copied in step 2 is not shown, then repeat steps 5 and 6 with
the value in the first column that contains numbers after the colon (:).
-> cfgPhy ch,id
-> d &phyunits,6,4
-> d 0x(ADDRESS from step 4),0x30,4