RE: Disk replacement for DUMMIES

Phillip:
Unfortunately, there is no expansion on this box, it holds 4 drives.
The 6607s will be here today.  I will do a save and reload of the system
adding the RAID card.
cjg

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Philipp Rusch
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 12:03 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Disk replacement for DUMMIES


Carl,
add another two 6607 drives to it and after you' re  done with your RAID
config remove the two 6606's ... best performance is achieved when the 4
drives not only have the same capicity (this is a must) but when they
are exactly the same type. What is the feature no. of the controller you
are replacing and which one will you put in ?

Regards, Philipp Rusch

Carl Galgano schrieb:

> Ok, one more question.... Again.
> On the box w/no RAID, it has 2 6606 and 2 6607 drives.  Do all the
> drives in the RAID pool need to be the same model/type/capacity? cjg
>
> Carl J. Galgano
> EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
> 550 Kennesaw Avenue, Suite 800
> Marietta, GA  30060
> (770) 422-2995 - voice
> (419) 730-8212 - fax
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Carl Galgano
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:32 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Disk replacement for DUMMIES
>
> One other question about RAID5.  I have another AS400 here that has 4
> drives in it, but there is no RAID5 controller in the box.  The
> machine is at about 30% used as far as DASD goes.  I have a RAID5 card

> for it. Can I just put the card in, and then set up the raid pool in
> SST/DST, or do I need to reload the system? cjg
>
> Carl J. Galgano
> EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
> 550 Kennesaw Avenue, Suite 800
> Marietta, GA  30060
> (770) 422-2995 - voice
> (419) 730-8212 - fax
> mailto:cgalgano@ediconsulting.com http://www.ediconsulting.com
> AS400 EDI, Networking, E-Commerce and Communications Consulting and
> Implementation http://www.icecreamovernight.com Premium Ice Cream
Brands
> shipped Overnight FREE AS/400 Timesharing Service -
> http://www.ediconsulting.com/timeshare.html
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Philipp Rusch
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:56 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Disk replacement for DUMMIES
>
> Hello Carl,
> first, don't worry about the data on the failed drive, it will be
> rebuilt from the redundant information of the other drives in the RAID

> set. The only thing you must manually take care of is the failed
> drives "hardware object" should be removed from the configuration,
> otherwise it will stay there in the config info for ever ... sounds
> more complicated than it is in reality. OK, step by step: you got a
> new drive, you planned a downtime, you power down your system.
> Identify the failed drive, take out the old drive and put in the new
> one, then power up again in manual mode (IPL from  B M). Go to DST and

> sign on as QSECOFR, not 11111111 and not 22222222. Go to the "work
> with disk units" menus, "work with disk configuration" and then "work
> with device parity protection" (this is RAID-5 in AS/400 terms) There
> you start your RAID protection again. If this has been completed, you
> add the new unit to your ASP and look at the resulting config and now
> you got to look for a drive missing from config (the old one). Remove
> it. Then exit DST and go on with the IPL. System should be running
> normal as before. Switch IPL mode back to normal and THAT 'S IT !
>
> HTH, regards from germany, Philipp Rusch
>
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