On Apr 16, 11:45 am, andrey.lak...@gmail.com wrote:
> aixd...@yahoo.com <aixd...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> >>> We have two p5 boxes: 9113-550 and 9133-55A.
> >> >>> Is it possible to move SCSI drives between this boxes ?
>
> >> >>> When I installed drive from 9133-55A into 9113-550 and run cfgmgr it
> >> >>> complains:
>
> >> >>> Method error (/etc/methods/cfgscdisk -l hdisk3 ):
> >> >>> 0514-086 Cannot perform the requested function because the specified
> >> >>> device is not supported on this platform.
>
> >> >>> Drive is visible with lscfg command but is not visible with lspv.
>
> >> >> What was on the drive? Was the volume group varyied off before
> >> >> removal? Was it connected to a scsi raid adapter?
>
> >> > It was clean empty drive just from factory.
> >> > It wasn't connected to RAID adapter (AFAIK), but I'll try to reformat it
> >> > with 512 bytes sector. May be it helps ?
>
> >> No luck. Drive still is not visible by AIX (5.3).
>
> >> > This drive shows as Defined, and I cant make it Available.
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> > Make sure the firmware on the 9113 is current enough to pick up
> > support for the 146GB drive you are trying to install
>
> >http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp.../aixfixes.html
>
> We've already updated p5 550's firmware to the latest available version (240_299).
> And SCSI adapter microcode also has been updated.
> Drive still is visible as defined and could not be made available. Even
> while booting from diagnostic CD and this is the only drive in the server.
> This drive works fine in p5 55A adn p5 52A models.
>
> We can plug into p5 550 any SCSI drive except IBM's. That's amazing.
>
> --

We had the same problem (taking a drive from a 55A and trying to put
it into a 550). We eventually opened a call with IBM and were told
that the 55A drives are not supported on 550s (there's apparently a
hardware compatibility website somewhere that says just that).

Strangely, the 55A drive does work on our older B80 servers.