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"rmdev -l hdiskx  -d" removes this raid array disk from ODM that was known
to AIX as physical disk. May be you need remove and reconfigure physical
SSA disk too "rmdev -l pdiskx -d".
After that run "cfgmgr" and all available and working SSA physical disks
will be configured as ordinary physical disk .(like SCSI disks, just
one-to-one mapping exsist between hdiskx and pdiskx, not many-to-one
like with SSA RAID5 disks)
Now you can proceed with volume group creation an so on. There is no need to
format drives... :-)

Oh, yes, If you had any volume groups on those failed disks...
run "exportvg <vg name>" to remove VG information from ODM.

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Hasso Brck
Technical Manager
Korel SYS Ltd.

A bunch of ssa disks were at some stage members of an ssa raid-5 array. The
system was dismantled and I am now trying to use these disks for other purposes.

It appears that once a disk is made a member of the array, a bit is set on some
of the
disk registers (or may be something is written on the plater itself). In any
case
the disk can't be configured. cfgmgr will create a pdisk but not the hdisk.
mkdev
dosn't work either and neither does the ssa format through diag. IBM has been
looking at it for couple of days, but so far the only reply was: "You should
have
removed the disks from the array through SMIT?!!"

Alex