RE: Sequel to our 40S troubles

["Jones, John (US)" <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Along the lines of replacing the 6606s with 6607s, I would probably do
this:

0. Clean tape drive.
1. GO SAVE/21.
1.1 21 again just in case you encounter media errors.
2. Replace 6606s with 6607s (at least the load source pair).
3. IPL from D
3.1 Build new mirrored pairs
3.2 GO RESTORE/21.  Follow the Backup & Recovery manual procedures.

Obviously, you'll up system capacity.  Also, doing a full restore
generally leads to optimal spreading of the data.

John A. Jones
Americas Security Administrator
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
V: +1-630-455-2787 F: +1-312-601-1782
John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Carpenter [mailto:CarpCon@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:25 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Sequel to our 40S troubles

1. The 6607 should work.  You'll need pairs for mirroring.
2. Ebay of course.   They've got a 6606 and 6607 (same price: $10)

Since it's the load source you'll either have to use another 6606 or
reload the OS.

If you're willing to try, you might be able juggle your disk config by
adding a 6607 pair and then removing a 6606 pair (not the load source
pair).
This assumes DST will let you ignore the load source error.   Once done,
you'll have a replacement 6606 for your bad load source drive.


Keith



----- Original Message -----
From: "James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 5:46 PM
Subject: Sequel to our 40S troubles


> Some weeks ago, as some of you may recall, I was having difficulty
with
> our 40S refusing to IPL, and giving a mysterious SRC that didn't show
up
> in any manual. We eventually got it back up, but never did figure out
with
> any certainty what the problem was.
>
> Now, we have a concrete problem: it's lost a disk drive. Worse: the
> missing drive is half the load-source mirrored pair. Fortunately, we
> mirror everything.
>
> All of the drives are 6606s. We started out with 8 of them; we're now
down
> to 5. We've got plenty of spare 6607 drives for our production box,
but we
> don't have one bloody damned spare 6606 that hasn't gone bad.
>
> 1. Will a 40S take a 6607? Can it be physically shoehorned into a
drive
> bay? Will the system recognize it?
>
> 2. Does anybody know where I might find some known-good 6606 drives?
>
> --
> JHHL