ITEM: AT5694L

Added 4 disks to 7137 and aix doesn't see new space

Env:  AIX 3.2.5, C10    
      7137
 Desc: They have a 7137 raid box on a C10.  She added 4 4GB drives in 
addition to the 4 existing ones and all went but the system doesn't 
recognize them.  The command lspv hdisk1 still shows only 16GB.
 Act: Unfortunely, this is normal.  The AIX Operating System will
not see the additional space until the VGDA has been rewritten.  This
means that you will have to remove the volume group that resides on the
hdisk(s) for the 7137 and then readd(NOT import) the volume group.  
Assuming that you have already backed up all of your data on this volume
group, here are the steps that you should follow:
    1. varyoff the VG
   2. export the VG
   3. rmdev -dl hdisk0
   4. cfgmgr
   5. recreate the VG
   6. make sure that AIX sees the additional space
   7. make the LVs/FSs and restore the data



Support Line: Added 4 disks to 7137 and aix doesn't see new space ITEM: AT5694L

Dated: March 1996 Category: N/A

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