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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 format 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