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Dare, I was wrong. I've just pulled out my old V3R7 system manual. "The 9406 models 500, 510, and 530 support concurrent maintenance of all internal disk units in either RAID-5 protection or mirrored mode." I apologize for my earlier misleading posts. Regards, Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] > On Behalf Of Dare > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:30 AM > To: midrange-l@midrange.com > Subject: Re: Disk Failure > > I have IBM maintenance and the CE is on the way to replace the faulty > disk. > Are you saying I'm going to have "DOWN TIME"? :( Carl, can you confirm > that? > Is there a way to find out the exact problem with the disk because > WRKHDWRSC > is reporting all my *STG devices to be operational. > > Thanks Andy and rest. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@attbi.com> > To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:26 AM > Subject: RE: Disk Failure > > > > Dare, > > > > From the looks of your disk configuration, you are on an older system > > which will not allow you to replace the disk while the system is active. > > Your system will remain active with mirroring and RAID. You could just > > wait until your CE arrives and let him deal with it. The RAID set will > > rebuild itself when the machine powers up after the new disk is > > installed. > > > > Because you are now unprotected and the loss of an additional drive in > > the RAID set will require a full system reload, you might want to do a > > full option 21 save if you have time before your customer engineer > > arrives. Otherwise, if you're on IBM maintenance, let them put it back > > together for you. > > > > Regards, > > Andy Nolen-Parkhouse > > > > > Subject: Disk Failure > > > > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > -- > > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > I came in this morning and found out one of my disk failed, I already > > > called our CE. Any idea what to look for, steps of action, possible > > > problems, data recovery, or anything of help. > > > Below is my WRKDSKSTS, unit #4 is the failed disk. > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Work with Disk Status 06/04/02 09:03:45 > > > > > > Elapsed time: 00:08:04 > > > > > > Size % I/O Request Read Write Read Write % > > > > > > Unit Type (M) Used Rqs Size (K) Rqs Rqs (K) (K) Busy > > > > > > 1 6606 1967 ++++ 4.1 5.9 1.5 2.6 4.5 6.6 5 > > > > > > 1 6606 1967 ++++ 4.9 5.7 2.4 2.4 4.5 6.9 5 > > > > > > 2 6607 3145 84.7 14.1 5.0 8.5 5.6 4.4 5.9 22 > > > > > > 3 6607 3145 83.3 12.9 5.0 7.6 5.2 4.3 6.0 20 > > > > > > 4 6607 4194 77.0 15.6 5.4 9.6 5.9 4.9 6.2 51 > > > > > > > > > > > > Work with Disk Status 06/04/02 09:03:45 > > > > > > Elapsed time: 00:08:04 > > > > > > --Protection-- > > > > > > Unit ASP Type Status Compression > > > > > > 1 1 MRR ACTIVE > > > > > > 1 1 MRR ACTIVE > > > > > > 2 1 DPY UNPROT > > > > > > 3 1 DPY UNPROT > > > > > > 4 1 DPY FAILED > > > > > > 5 1 DPY UNPROT > > > > _______________________________________________ > > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing > list > > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing > list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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