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Restoring communication between host and disks after
cable disconnection

If a Fibre cable is inadvertently disconnected between the host and a disk, you can restore communication between the host and the disk without restarting.

 To restore lost cable communication between host and disk

1. Reconnect the cable.
2. Use the fdisk -l command to verify that the host sees the disks. It may take a few minutes before the host is capable of seeing the disk.
3. Issue the following vxdctl command to force the VxVM configuration daemon vxconfigd to rescan the disks:

   # vxdctl enable