Re: Migrating drives and Pumping data

Yup. Old GIG-MIG.

Power down. Manual to DST. Remove the drives from the configuration. Finish
IPL. Presto! Data moved to other drives.

Power down. Remove old drives. Power up.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

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-----Original Message-----
From: Online Strategies <gary@online-strategies.com>
To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Date: Monday, March 12, 2001 1:03 PM
Subject: Migrating drives and Pumping data


>Situation:
>Customer has an expansion unit with 10x 2Gb drives in one Raid 5 array and
>another 8x 8Gb in another.  They want to to switch the 10x 2Gb drives (in
>their own ASP) with 8x 8Gb drives.  They want to pump the data onto the new
>drives.  Can this be done?  If yes, does anyone know the procedure?
>TIA,
>Gary Feinstein
>Sr. Strategy Consultant
>Online Strategies Corporation
>gary@online-strategies.com
>ph. 561-239-7868
>
>
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