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Rob: You and I apparently got very different interpretations out of Phil's post. I think what he was saying was that his total time was approx 200 minutes for the series he went through and that your time *might* work out similar. I think he was implying that if 1 drive takes 50 minutes, then 10 drives would also take 50 minutes. This would be because the actions take place in parallel. {I.e., "the number of disks (1,2 or 3) did not seem to make much difference".) I wish I'd taken good notes during times I've installed or migrated drives; it's not an everyday thing for me. But I recall that a number of actions did happen concurrently. Formatting seems like an obvious parallel activity. But... YMMV and ICBW. Tom Liotta On Thu, 06 December 2001, rob@dekko.com wrote: > This is the kind of information I was looking for. Nervous about that data > though. I don't have 75 hours to spend. > > Anyone else have some samples? I guess we should have kept our stop > watches handy the last several times we added dasd. > > prumschlag@phdinc.c > om To: midrange-l@midrange.com > Subject: Re: How long to initialize disk? > > > What do you mean by initialize? Like FORMAT C:? > > This may not be relevant, but we recently moved some disks from one ASP to > another on our single AS/400. We actually did this is three passes. Each > pass > took between 45 and 60 minutes. The size of the disks (4 or 8 GB), the > speed of > the disks, or the number of disks (1,2 or 3) did not seem to make much > difference. > > Another bit of worthless information: We also added a single new disk > drive (8 > GB, 10 k rpm). I did not watch the clock when it we added it to the RAID > set, > but I'm guessing it was about 20 minutes. Two days later we added it to an > existing ASP. That took another 30 minutes running under DST. -- Tom Liotta The PowerTech Group, Inc. 19426 68th Avenue South Kent, WA 98032 Phone 253-872-7788 Fax 253-872-7904 http://www.400Security.com ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/
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