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Operating Systems HP-UX hdds physically Post 302072205 by buffoonix on Friday 28th of April 2006 07:51:13 PM

04-28-2006

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I would rather dd from the raw device and read bigger chunks
e.g.
dd if=/dev/rdsk/c?t?d? of=/dev/null bs=1024k

If your disk is defunct then the command would probably hang and could not be killed.
Therefore better start it as a batch job,
or if run from the console run tsm before
to have another virtual terminal to leave you a prompt.

You could also let the device try to identify

diskinfo -v /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?

If not all fields are populated there might be a problem with the disk.

Also see if ioscan reports loss of hardware

/usr/sbin/ioscan -fCdisk|grep NO_HW

If you have OnlineDiag installed (swlist OnlineDiag)
you could run stm and read info logs of disk.

If you have EMS running you should check its log for any
monitoring events
more /var/opt/resmon/logs/event.log
But if you had it should have warned you by some notification email.

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