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Old 03-03-2006
Disks on AIX

Hello

I've been working on AIX 5.3 ML3 on IBM pSeries520. That server has 6 HDD drives in 3 volume groups (1+mirror in each group). I must check which phisical disk is which disk in the system. For ex. I want to know that disk in 4th slot in the machine is marked as hdisk5 on AIX. Does anybody know how to do it?

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Pit
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Old 03-03-2006
Re:

You can use the command "lscfg -l hdisk0" to view the loaction code. This code is mapped to physical location both by drawing on top of your macine (rack mounted) or insde the box (Tower machine).

But you can also just use "dd if=/dev/hdisk0 of=/dev/null" and see which one blinks like mad....
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Old 03-07-2006
Thank You! It works great. I used command "lscfg | grep hdisk" and verified results on IBM site:http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...u/locsqsf2.htm

Pit
 
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