RE: Disk Replacement -- MIDRANGE-L

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I replaced all 4 of the 4Gig drives in my home 50S with 8Gig drives.
Using DST and doing it in an order that allowed me to also copy the load
source drive it took a day and a half.  

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Doug Hart
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Ross
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:01 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Disk Replacement

Note: the load source can not be replaced this way.

John Ross
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Steve Morrison wrote:
> We are about to replace 30 non-IBM disk drives with IBM drives in our 
> Model 720, running V5R1. The drives are parity protected, in 4 parity 
> sets. We are running about 60% DASD usage. I have heard of a procedure 
> that will allow us to end parity protection, inform the system that we 
> want to remove certain drive, allow the system to move data off the 
> drives, so we can replace them with the IBM drives.
> 
> Can someone point me to specific information about how to do this?

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