deinstall devices.fcp.disk.array.rte

UNIX AIX
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Hello,

I am trying to "deinstall devices.fcp.disk.array.rte" fileset from an AIX5.3 box. Have been unsuccessful so far. "smit remove" threw the below error:
FAILURES
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Filesets listed in this section failed pre-deinstall verification
and will not be removed.

Non-Deinstallable Filesets
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The following filesets were selected for deinstallation. Deinstallability
checks indicate that they should not be removed from the system.

devices.fcp.disk.array.rte

<< End of Failure Section >>

FILESET STATISTICS
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1 Selected to be deinstalled, of which:
1 FAILED pre-deinstall verification
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0 Total to be deinstalled

Pre-installation Failure/Warning Summary
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Name Level Pre-installation Failure/Warning
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devices.fcp.disk.array.rt Failed pre-deinstallation check

Am I missing something here? I need to get the rdac uninstalled to work with MPIO. But do not seem to run into any sort of luck.. Need help!

Thanks.

2

You neither gave the information which command exactly you used nor what FC related devices where present at the moment of command execution. Hence I can give just some hints.
First remove all DS4K devices: rmdev -dl everthing with fc* and also dac and dar (that you probably did not do yet) down to the pci slot (-R) where the adapter(s) is/are located. This means that your FC disks won't be visible after uninstall.
Secondly uninstall the fileset together with its corresponding filesets. So command could look like this:
# installp -ug <yourdevicedriver>
You can look into smit.log to find out what command was executed with SMIT.

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Shockneck, Your response gave me the required lead. I had deleted the hdisks but not the dac and dar devices. Deleting the dac and dar devices did the trick.
Thanks!