RE: Converting RAID Striping from 4Disks to 8Disks

That one - probably a salesman !   :-)



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Bolhuis [SMTP:lbolhui@ibm.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 1998 10:51 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Converting RAID Striping from 4Disks to 8Disks
> 
> Neil,
> > 
> > By ending RAID protection it's freeing up the areas on the 4 disks
> used
> > for parity protection, then by starting it across 8 drives it
> allocates
> > space on all 8 disks.  Space should obviously be immediately
> available
> > on the 4 you just stopped RAID protection on, but it may need to
> move
> > data around from the other 4 disks before it can activate RAID.
> > When you restart RAID it should ask you to select the disks to
> spread
> > parity over (4 or 8).
> 
>   Thanks, I will try this again some time because I don't remember
> that
> last option.  But I repeat my earlier statement:
> 
> > >   None of this qualifies as a 'Simple command in OS/400'.
>   
>    Who writes those books???
> 
>    Larry Bolhuis
>    Arbor Solutions, Inc
>    lbolhui@ibm.net
> 
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