User`s guide

ADD DISK

Adds a disk drive to the list of known disk drives.

Format

ADD DISK

container-name SCSI-location

Parameters

container-name

Speciﬁes the name that is used to refer to this disk drive. This name is referred

to when creating units and stripesets. The name must start with a letter

(A–Z) and can then consist of up to eight more characters made up of letters

A–Z, numbers 0–9, periods (.), dashes (-), or underscores (_), for a total of nine

characters.

SCSI-location

The location of the disk drive to be added in the form PTL where P designates

the port (1–6 or 1–3, depending on the controller model), T designates the target

ID of the device, (0–6, in a nonfailover conﬁguration, or 0–5 if the controller is in

a failover conﬁguration), and L designates the LUN of the device (must be 0).

When entering the PTL, at least one space must separate the the port, target,

and LUN numbers.

Description

Adds a disk drive to the list of known disk drives and names the drive. This

command must be used when a new SCSI–2 disk drive is to be added to the

conﬁguration.

Qualiﬁers

TRANSPORTABLE

NOTRANSPORTABLE (Default)

In normal operations, the controller makes a small portion of the disk inaccessible

to the host and uses this area to store metadata, which improves data reliability,

error detection, and recovery. This vast improvement comes at the expense of

transportability.

If NOTRANSPORTABLE is speciﬁed and there is no valid metadata on the unit,

the unit must be initialized.

Note

Digital recommends that you avoid specifying TRANSPORTABLE unless

transportability of disk drive or media is imperative and there is no other

way to accomplish moving the data.

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