RE: install DASD a C.E.-only job?

["Bale, Dan" <D.Bale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: install DASD a C.E.-only job?

Since this was a DASD subsystem that was previously installed on one of our other AS/400s that we no longer have, I doubt EMC would do this.  I had asked the DecisionOne Servcom about installing them, since they are our service provider for the EMC drives we have, and they said it would be a chargeable service.

Someone else on the list came through for me and told me, privately, how to do this.  I attempted that this weekend but, unfortunately, 3 of the 8 drives "failed to respond to the system" when I went into DST to install them.  Way bummer.  Would'a gone from 94GB to 123GB and from 80% to 61% DASD usage.  Also tried to "analyze the disk surface" and came up with a bunch of errors.  The EMC DASD subsystem panel shows no errors, but weirdly enough, after physically attaching the drives to the 6501 installed in the box, the EMC panel intermittently would show "STARTING SUBSYSTEM", flash to a screenfull of block characters, and then show the normal status display.  I suppose it's possible that the drives themselves are O.K., but somewhere else along the line, something has cr*pped out on us.

It turns out that we do not have a service contract for this subsystem.  If the three drives truly are bad, I'm not sure that it would be worth our while to pay to have them replaced as we are planning to replace our systems in the near (?) future.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------

-----Original Message-----
From:   Bob Larkin [SMTP:blarkin@wt.net]
Sent:   Tuesday, August 07, 2001 1:04 AM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: install DASD a C.E.-only job?

It would seem that EMC should install it for you.

"Bale, Dan" wrote:

> Not that we have in our "spares" cabinet.  Since we really have not
> been impacted with any speed performance issues, there's really no
> need to go with anything faster at this point.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
> D.Bale@Handleman.com
>   Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
>   (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
>
>      -----Original Message-----
>      From:   Glenn Ericson [SMTP:Glenn-Ericson@att.net]
>      Sent:   Friday, August 03, 2001 3:51 PM
>      To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>      Subject:        Re: install DASD a C.E.-only job?
>
>      Dan is there any other card the  EMC  DASD will attach through?
>      That 6501 is Slow. It likely is not allowing  your 3590 to run
>      at  your
>      400 bus speed  which is likely  slower then 3590 as well.
>
>      At 06:46 PM 08/02/2001 -0400, Bale, Dan wrote:
>           Is it within the realm of possibility for me to install DASD
>           and a 6501
>           card and get the AS/400 (9406, model 510, V3R7) to actually
>           use it?  The
>           EMC DASD subsystem was actually installed into the expansion
>           box (but
>           was never connected to the system) over a year ago, but we
>           made a bad
>           assumption that we could attach it to another 6501 card
>           which already
>           had the 3590 tape subsystem attached.  Now that we've got a
>           spare 6501
>           card, and we're getting a little tight on disk space, we're
>           itching to
>           get this installed.
>
>           Or is this C.E.-only territory?  IBM wants $200 per hour to
>           do this,
>           which we would easily shell out for, but if this is a
>           relatively simple
>           install without an *easy* opportunity to hose the system,
>           then I'd like
>           to give it a go myself.
>
>           Dan Bale
>           IT - AS/400
>           Handleman Company
>           248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
>           D.Bale@Handleman.com
>             Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
>             (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)