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

Dan:
 
About a year ago I purchased a 9337-480 with a 6501 card off of Ebay for
about $500.  It's got 8 4GB drives, Raid 5 net 28GB or so.  Surprisingly, it
plugged in to my old E45 and fired up just fine.  I bought it because the
rack has two drawers of IPL 9337 clone drives that are VERY trouble prone.
For $500 it was worth replacing the disks.
 
From your comments, I'd say that EMC array ain't worth the trouble or risk.
But maybe it's worth buying some 9337 at these prices and get them blessed
by your hardware service provider.
 
I know what you're thinking - what the heck are you doing with an E45?
Sentimental reasons.  My first big box.  Started as a B40.  Soldered my own
Twinax cables...  just hate to see it go.  I don't turn it on too often -
just once a month or so to make sure it still works.
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Bale, Dan
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 3:27 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: 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.)
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