Walter Mackenzie

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I have a P5 IBM Server running AIX 5.3. &nbsp;The machine crashed and the rootvg is no longer accessible. &nbsp;There was a 2nd hard drive on the system with data that I would like to move to another P5 AIX 5.3 system but not sure how to do this. &nbsp;I physically moved the drive to the other system and it shows up with lsdev -Cc disk but not with lspv command. &nbsp;How can I make this disk accessible to this new system<br />
so I can retrieve the data?
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I have a P5 IBM Server running AIX 5.3.  The machine crashed and the rootvg is no longer accessible.  There was a 2nd hard drive on the system with data that I would like to move to another P5 AIX 5.3 system but not sure how to do this.  I physically moved the drive to the other system and it shows up with lsdev -Cc disk but not with lspv command.  How can I make this disk accessible to this new system
so I can retrieve the data?

Moving AIX data disk to another system

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.