Maintaining disk drives
Issue 3.3 February 2003 83
Maintaining disk drives
Overview
Procedures in this section include the following:
●Disk drive compatibility with CMS loadson page 83
●Prerequisites on page83
●Required references on page 84
●Replacing the primary internal EIDE boot disk driveon page 85
●Adding or replacing the internal EIDE data disk driveon page 93
●Adding or replacing external SCSI disk driveson page 102
●Setting up the disk drives on page 110.
●Partitioning disk drives on page 111
●Administering data disk driveson page 121

Disk drive compatibility with CMS loads

When a new or replacement disk drive is installed in an older system, the CMS load may
not be compatible with the disk drive if the CMS configuration files have not been updated.
These configuration files (/olds/disk.conf and /olds/olds-funcs) must be edited
or replaced with the correct information. Contact the Avaya technical support organization
for assistance.

Prerequisites

Do a CMSADM backup, if possible, before you add or replace a disk drive. See your CMS
software installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting document for this procedure.
Before you attempt to replace defective data (nonboot) disks, try to print the current setup
for all ACDs. This information must be readministered after you install replacement disks.