Re: load source concurrent maintenance -- MIDRANGE-L

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lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

As it should!! Glad to hear your date is back in the land of the protected!

There is one HUGE no-no when it comes to failed Load Source in a RAID environment: DO NOT stop the operating system until the drive is replaced. Unless is has been fixed with newer RAID cards, (Which I simply don't have the guts to try...) the system cannot IPL from a dead load source drive even though it's RAID protected. Thus it is extremely important to replace and rebuild that drive with all available alacrity!

If you have MIRRORed data protection the mirrored pair can be used to IPL (Note that if you use remote load source mirroring you will need to physically swap the good member of the pair with the bad one - um, so know where that guy lives!!)

Now I'm worried.

I have six drives in a RAID 5 configuration. That's it. That's my DASD as far as I know. What is my "Load Source"? I've replaced lots of drives on this machine but always via a power down. The way I read this, there is a possibility that if I lose a drive that I will lose my whole system! Please, say it ain't so, Larry!

Joe

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