Volume Group disk dead

UNIX AIX
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AIX 4.3.3, 3 drive mirrored stripe. I can't replace the failed drive for at least a week and the VG is down hard. Any way to recover the VG using the mirror copy?

Something like this:

break the mirror
redefine the VG with the mirrored hdisks
replace the drive
remirror using the original VG disks as the mirror set.

cao!

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All,

The tech was here and showed me that once the failed disk (and the other disks in the stripe) were reduced from the volume group, the volume group still contained the disks in the mirror and could be mounted as usual.