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Bringing up a disk or path, Bringing up a disk from stopped, Bringing up a path from stopped – HP NonStop G-Series User Manual

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Performing Routine Disk Operations

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Bringing Up a Disk or Path

A listing similar to this is sent:

This display shows that the primary disk is up but the mirror disk is down.

Bringing Up a Disk or Path

At various times, typically after maintenance, you will need to bring up a disk or path
from a down, hard down, or exclusive state. See

Section 19, Monitoring Hardware

Components

, for an explanation of device states.

Bringing Up a Disk From STOPPED

1. Make sure you are logged on as a super-group user (255,

n

).

2. Enter:

> SCF

-> START DISK $disk

Example

To bring the disk $DATA back up from a regular STOPPED state, log on as a super-
group user (255,

n

) and enter:

> SCF START DISK $DATA

Bringing Up a Path From STOPPED

Enter:

> SCF

-> START DISK $disk { -P | -B | -M | -MB }

You must specify one of the following parameters for mirrored disks: -P (for primary
path); -B (for backup path); -M (for mirror path); or -MB (for mirror backup path).

Bringing Up a Disk or Path From a STOPPED State, Substate
HARDDOWN

1. Make sure you are logged on as a super-group user (255,

n

).

2. Reset the disk:

-> RESET DISK $disk

STORAGE - Status DISK \SHARK.$SYSTEM
LDev Primary Backup Mirror MirrorBackup Primary Backup
PID PID
6 *STARTED STARTED STOPPED STOPPED 0,256 1,256

Note. Before bringing up a disk that contains an SQL file, see your manager or database
administrator.

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