Re: V5R1M0 9406-270 (Failed 9Gig Raided disk)

Hi guys,

Remember this issue?????

The original problem wasn't a bad disk but a disk that was not populated or
loaded correctly from the factory.
I followed the instruction from IBM to replace the bad disk but to my dismay
I was unable to perform the task successfully.
So I decided to reinstall the original disk and started all over again with
instruction form page 806 below.
I removed data from disk, rebuild the data on disk, add disk to asp, add
disk to parity set and bingo everything work and I got my raid protection,
error disappear.
For my sanity, I removed the disk, replace with the replacement from IBM,
rebuild disk, add disk to asp, add disk to parity set and it worked too.
Reversed it again and it all worked fine.

The solution was from the following book.....
See page 806 on this book:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/v5r1hwpdf/pdf/y4459671.pdf



----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Hall" <pbhall@ameritech.net>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: V5R1M0 9406-270 (Failed 9Gig Raided disk)


> At 13:39 01/01/2003, Oludare wrote:
> >Yes it is a Refurb disk.  That's an interesting number of failure in an
> >iSeries 400 environment.  I have only seen 1 failed disk since I stated
on
> >400 in 1990 and it was mid 2002.
>
> There was a major discussion on this list about 2-3 years ago about the
new
> (at that time) 10k drives. There were major QA problems. I don't believe
> they were not actually manufactured by IBM. I had two of them fail within
> two days. Fortunately they were not both in the same parity set. Up to
that
> time, I had never had a problem with IBM disk failures either.
>
>
> Pete Hall
> pbhall@ameritech.net
> http://www.pbhall.us/
>
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