Re: Can system unit drives be used by IBM i?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You might be right about those drives being AIX drives.  Why not just create an AIX (or Linux) partition and put just base AIX/Linux on it.  Once it replaces the file system it would take quite an effort to recover any data, and as you point out it’s highly unlikely any proprietary data would be there anyway.	 


Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects



> On Apr 1, 2026, at 6:34 AM, Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Prepping a system for power down and removal after migration to Power 11.
> Already deleted all LPARs of IBM i, AIX, VIOS and assigned all resources to
> one single LPAR of IBMi.  Booted from media, initialized disks and just
> installed LIC only.  I'm in DST.
> After assigning a disk in the ESLS-001 expansion unitS as the load source I
> initialized the rest of the disks in the expansion units and added them to
> the system ASP.
> I cannot add the following disks:
>
> Power 9 9009-41A
> System unit 78D2-001
> Backplane                      2D34     P31        P2
> Disk Unit                     5B41-050 P105       P2-D1
> Disk Unit                     5B41-050 P106       P2-D2
> Disk Unit                     5B41-050 P102       P2-D7
> Disk Unit                     5B41-050 P103       P2-D8
>
> I assume these are for VIOS only and it's one of those different
> bytes/sector issue?  And while I might be able to totally reformat them for
> IBM i with some low level option I'm not sure I want to lower the value for
> someone who might want VIOS reinstalled.
> I just want to wipe the data.  Although there shouldn't really be much
> confidential data on the VIOS drives, as opposed to what was on the other
> drives.
>
> And, if Paul Nelson is still lurking, no, I'm not interested in playing
> with Tannerite.
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