Geoffrey, What you probably need to do is
#smitty vg Set Characteristics of a Volume Group Add a Physical Volume to a Volume Group Until the disks are part of a volume group, you won't be able to create LV's or FS's on them. Of course, instead of adding them to a currently existing volume group, you may want to create a new volume group to add them to. Or, if they already have information on them that you want to keep, you can do an importvg (or smitty importvg) to import the volume group that they already belong to. That's how you would move data disks from one machine to another. Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -----Original Message----- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Disk questions This is an AIX question so may be off subject a little. I just had a second SSA drawer installed with 16 disks, only 7 of them seem to be missing depending on how you want to look at them. LSPV shows this for those disks. I've never seen this before so I'm not sure how to "initialize" if you will to get them to show up in Smitty, can't see them there. I'll be using these for my disk pools and DB and Log mirrors. hdisk18 none None hdisk19 none None hdisk20 none None hdisk21 none None hdisk22 none None hdisk23 none None hdisk24 none None hdisk33 none None Others show this: hdisk25 000143405656e7ba None hdisk26 000143405657922b None hdisk27 000143405657e7d1 None hdisk28 00014340565826e1 None Thanks for the help. Oh, lsdev -Cc disk does show the disks. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154
