Remove a drive

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

We are in the process of removing several 4gb and 8gb drives.  Actually a 
complete tower full.  We are getting rid of these two spd towers and 
putting in one new one.  To reduce downtime we want to get started before 
downtime.  Thus we stuck six 35gb drives into the main tower.  Even with 
raid striping taken in to effect, with the 6 new 35gb drives thrown in, it 
should even out the old drives, until the new tower gets installed with 
it's new drives.

V5R2.

We ran STRASPBAL TYPE(*ENDALC) on the old drives.  Then we ran STRASPBAL 
TYPE(*MOVDTA).  Checking the status with CHKASPBAL until the move was 
done.  The old drives dropped from 83% to 16%.  Then we ran STRASPBAL 
TYPE(*CAPACITY) to balance the load better.

I see that STRSST has facilities to add a drive, but not to remove a 
drive.  To do the last bit, will that have to wait until we can get into 
DST?

Rob Berendt
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