Re: Change from mirror to RAID

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carl,

>I was under the impression that I could only put 4 drives in the
>7117 cabinet.  

The cabinet will accept up to 8, but I think there may have been different power
supply versions, and models were available which could not handle all 8 drives.
This was for people who need the extra card capacity or tape drives from the
7117.

>I may just go ahead an add 8 drives (6607) in the 7117 and
>leave the mirrored load source set on the MFIOP.  That would give me about
>32 gig.  

And still leave room to add another mirrored pair back to the MFIOP to raise to
36GB, which is the max these can do in protected storage.

I'm running over 80% DASD on my 12 6606 drive's since upgrading to V5R1, so
someday I may swap out my 6606's for 6607's if I get them cheap enough.  There
was one eBay auction for 10 of them which went for about $115 total, but I was
out of town at the time and missed it. 

Do you have a source for cheap 6607's?

I don't want to put much money in a machine which has reached the end of its
road...

Doug