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David, all drives in a parity set must be the same size. Since you say they are in an user asp ALL BY THEMSELVES... Then if 1 crashes you will loose the asp. If that's ok you can turn off the mirroring. __________________________________________________ Kirk Goins IBM Certified iSeries Technical Solutions Expert Pacific Information Systems - An IBM Premier Business Partner 503-674-2985 kirkg@pacinfosys.com -----Original Message----- From: David Gibbs [mailto:dgibbs@mks.com] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 2:22 PM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Question about drive configuration Folks: I'm not a hardware guru ... I've got a question about drive configuration on our 9406-170 (V5R1). We recently purchased a two new 8gb drives for the system, IBM installed and configured them like this ... # Type Size % used Protection 1 6607 4194 91.9 1 DPY 2 6607 3145 92.4 1 DPY 3 6607 3145 92.1 1 DPY 4 6607 3145 92.3 1 DPY 5 6717 8589 7.7 1 MRR 6 6717 8589 7.7 1 MRR 7 6607 3145 53.5 2 DPY The two new drives are 5 & 6 (drive 7 is in an ASP by itself, for testing purposes). We really don't need to have the drives mirrored ... is it possible to put the two new drives in the party set with the others? Our ITS guy thinks they cannot because of the difference in size. My main goal is to maximize the disk available, while also providing some failure protection. Mirroring (IMHO) wastes drive space and provides un-needed protection. Thanks! david -- David Gibbs Sr. Software Engineer / R&D / MKS Inc., www.mks.com Lombard, IL, USA; tel: 630-495-2108; fax: 630-495-3591 Build Better Software _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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