Re: 18+ hours to initialize a load source?

[Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've seen 300 minutes being normal on a 4328 drive and that was only 141Gb,
i don't know if SAS drives are really that much faster (lot less xp on
them). But yes 1124 minutes seems a bit excessive.

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 7:24 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Does this seem just a wee bit excessive?
>
> The load source disk is being initialized.
> Elapsed time in minutes . . . . . . . . :    1124.0
>
> Going on 19 hours...
>
> Resetting a P6 from formerly multiple partitions down to just one lpar of
> IBM i to prep it for decommissioning.
> IBM i 7.1
> I forget what kind of drives the CEC had in it.  Yes, the CEC was tagged
> as the load source.  T9 as the load source and Alternate IPL (DVD).
>
> Rob Berendt
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