HP NonStop G-Series User Manual

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Removes power to the disk drive.

Power On

Restores power to the disk drive.

Reset Backup Path

Places the backup path in a state from which it can be started.

Reset Disk

Places the disk in a state from which it can be started. This action might be necessary before starting
a disk that has both paths in a Hard Down state; if a hardware error has occurred; if the disk was
stopped with an Abort action; or if a Stop or Abort fails to put the disk into the Down state.

If only one disk path is in a Hard Down state, you can use the

Reset Primary Path

or

Reset Backup

Path

as appropriate.

Reset Primary Path

Places the primary path in a state from which it can be started.

Reset Volume

Places the volume in a state from which it can be started.

Responsive Test

Verifies that the disk drive is installed and responding.

Start Backup Path

Starts the backup path to this disk drive. When the Start action completes, the backup path is in the
Started state.

This action fails if both paths to this disk are down and the mirrored disk is Up. For more
information, see

Start Disk

.

Start Disk

Use this action to start all paths to the disk drive only when:

The disk paths are in a Down state. (Hard Down states require a reset action, either

Reset Disk

,

Reset Primary Path

, or

Reset Backup Path

as appropriate.)

Its mirrored disk is not currently Up. The Start Disk action is designed to fail if the mirrored
disk is already in an Up state because the mirror and primary disk volumes can have different
data and require a revive operation. To revive and bring up the disks properly, use the OSM

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