Re: Hardware requirements for Raid setup...more info -- MIDRANGE-L

No - RAID 5 is not supported by the base MFIOP.  You need one of the 
features specified. Which one depends on how much cache you want and 
whether you require hardware compression for your disk - and how much you 
want to spend !  :-)

Neil Palmer      DPS Data Processing Services Canada Ltd.
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"William Corbett" <corbett@asresources.com>
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2001/03/24 15:25
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Thanks for the reply, Neil...but I don't have any of the features you
specified...

This is a chopped-down copy of my rack config...am I missing something? As
I said, I thought that Raid5 capability was just sort of built-in, now my
hardware supplier tells me that I need a rather expensive raid
controller...same feature numbers you specified...

DESCRIPTION              TYPE-MODEL                              NUMBER  
ID               POS.  POS.
SYSTEM           9406-170
SYSTEM UNIT              9406-170
BUS CONTROL CARD 00-0000000
CONTROL PANEL            2468-001 00-0000000  1
MULTIPLE FUNCTION PLANAR                 2291-000                * <  
10-0354003  1            C01
MULTIPLE FUNCTION IOP            675A-002                * < 10-0354003
MULTIPLE FUNCTION IOA            675A-002 10-0354003
SERVICE PROCESSOR                675A-002 10-0354003
COMMUNICATIONS PORT              2838-001 10-9111020  1          C03
COMMUNICATIONS IOA               2838-001 10-9111020
COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL           605A-001 00-9111020
COMMUNICATIONS IOA               2745-001 10-9133025  1          C08
COMMUNICATIONS PORT              2745-001 10-9133025
COMMUNICATIONS PORT              2745-001 10-9133025
WORKSTATION IOA          2722-001 10-9118024  1          C09
MAIN STORAGE             3002-000                128 10-8303026  1  M02A
MAIN STORAGE             3002-000                128 10-8303040  1  M02B
MAIN STORAGE             3001-000                32 10-9113183  1  M02C
MAIN STORAGE             3001-000                32 10-9113186  1  M02D
TAPE UNIT                6390-001                % 00-0762431  1  D01
OPTICAL STORAGE UNIT             6321-002                % 00-00000    1   
D02
DISK UNIT                6713-050                * 68-0254470  1  L01
DISK UNIT                6713-050 68-025A271  1          L02
DISK UNIT                6713-050 68-0124BD1  1          L03
DISK UNIT                6713-050 68-02ADDFE  1          L04

Thank you for your help.

AS/Resources, Inc.
William A.(Tony) Corbett
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Developer
http://www.asresources.com
corbett@asresources.com




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