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Remove a Drive or Drive Filler
Remove a Drive or Drive Filler
You can perform this procedure while the server is running. See “Component Service
Categories” on page 49 for more information about hot-service procedures.
To hot-service a drive, you must first take it offline. This action prevents applications from
accessing the drive and removes software links to it.
1. Determine which drive needs to be removed.
See “Determine Which Drive Is Faulty” on page 67 .
2.
Determine if you need to shut down the OS to replace the drive, and perform one
of the following actions:
■ If the drive contains the sole image of the OS or cannot be logically isolated
from the server's online operations, shut down the OS as described in
“Power Off the Server (Oracle ILOM)” on page 52 . Then go to Step 5 .
■
If the drive can be taken offline without shutting down the OS, go to the next
step.
3.
Take the drive offline.
■
For a standard drive:
a.
At the Oracle Solaris prompt, list all drives in the device tree, including
drives that are not configured.
# cfgadm -al
This command lists dynamically reconfigurable hardware resources and shows their
operational status. In this case, look for the status of the drive you plan to remove.
This information is listed in the
Occupant
column.
Ap_id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
c0 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
c0::dsk/c1t0d0 disk connected configured unknown
c0::dsk/c1t0d0 disk connected configured unknown
usb0/1 unknown empty unconfigured ok
usb0/2 unknown empty unconfigured ok
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68 SPARC S7-2L Server Service Manual • March 2017