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Activating Volumes
This chapter describes how to make the HBA recognize a newly connected RAID volume that
was created prior to its connection with the HBA or that was previously connected to a different
HBA.
This chapter contains the following sections:
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“Overview of Volume Activation” on page 57
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“Activating a Volume (SPARC)” on page 58
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“Activating a Volume (x86)” on page 58
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“Activating a Volume (From an OS)” on page 59
Overview of Volume Activation
When you connect a RAID volume to the HBA, and that volume was created outside of the
HBA or was previously connected to a different HBA, the HBA considers this volume to be a
foreign RAID volume. To protect data, the foreign RAID volume is unusable by the operating
system or system boot loader until you manually activate it. You must manually activate a
volume in the following situations:
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You plan to move the physical disks that make up a hardware RAID volume from one
system to another system with the HBA.
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You are replacing an existing HBA that is managing hardware RAID volumes with a new
HBA.
Based on your configuration, use the appropriate utility to manually activate a RAID volume:
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If the HBA is installed in a SPARC System
- Use the
FCode
utility. See “Activating a
Volume (SPARC)” on page 58 .
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If the HBA is installed in an x86 System
- Use the BIOS Configuration utility. See
“Activating a Volume (x86)” on page 58 .
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