RE: Raid problems

And unfortunately with IBM as sole supplier with:
1) an attempted class action against their faulty drives
2) disk ptfs that address drive problems

I guess we are stuck either way. Anyone in manufacturing
would have to admit that a sole source is a problem.
Alternate sources increase innovation and allow you to
pick the most realiable, cost effective vendor. At one
time or another all the big mfgs have attempted to kill
off each other by excluding alternate vendor products from
the premises.

Standards are great, with Linux on the iSeries, the hardware
is the last great proprietary holdout. It certainly is a
major disincentive in wider adoption of the iSeries to promote
open systems on one hand but make the hardware exclusive.

Regards

Konrad