Re: Change from mirroring to Raid 5 - Any Gotcha's

Agreed, but in a failure, remove the bad load source and put the backup copy in 
its place, IPL and you are back up while waiting for the replacement drive.  
This can be scheduled at a more appropriate time.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@ibm.net>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 3:54 PM
Subject: RE: Change from mirroring to Raid 5 - Any Gotcha's


At 02:50 PM 5/16/00 -0700, you wrote:

On model 600's and higher, you can protect the "load source drive" in a 
parity set.  Mirroring is no longer required.

Al - on the way to Grand Rapids

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