Friday Fine-tune: Deleting Bad System Disks
February 16, 2018
As HP 3000s age their disks go bad, the fate of any component with moving parts. Even after replacing a faulty drive there are a few software steps to perform. Wyell Grunwald explains his problem after replacing a failed system bootup disk
Our disk was a MEMBER in MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET. I am trying to delete the disk off the system. Upon startup, the 3000 says LDEV 4 is not available. When going into SYSGEN, then IO, then DDEV 4, it gives me a warning that it is part of the system volume set — and cannot be deleted. How do I get rid of this disk?
Gilles Schipper of support provider GSA said that INSTALL is something to watch while resetting 3000 system disks.
Sounds like your install did not leave you with only a single MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET disk. Could it be that you have more than one system volume after INSTALL because other, non-LDEV 1 volumes were added with the AVOL command of SYSGEN — instead of the more traditional way of adding system volumes via the VOLUTIL utility?
You can check as follows:
SYSGEN
IO
LVOLIf the resulting output shows more than one volume, that's the answer.
He offers a repair solution as well.
The solution would be as follows:
1. Reboot with:
START NORECOVERY SINGLE-DISC SINGLE-USER
2. With SYSGEN, perform a DVOL for all non-LDEV1 volumes
3. HOLD, then KEEP CONFIG.SYS
4. Create new SLT.
5. Perform INSTALL from newly-created SLT.
6. Add any non-LDEV1 system volumes with VOLUTIL. This will avoid such problems in future.
If you do see only one system volume with the LVOL command, the only thing I can think of is that VOLUTIL was used to add LDEV 4 to the MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET after the install.