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First bring the disk out of the volume group, and clear the PVID:
[root@aix01]/root# lspv hdisk3 000e583a618a3ca8 testvg active [root@aix01]/root# reducevg testvg hdisk3 [root@aix01]/root# chpv -C hdisk3
Format the disk, it will put 0 on each block:
[root@aix01]/root# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdisk3 bs=1024k count=$(bootinfo -s hdisk3)