RE: Disk Replacement

Just out of curiosity...what are you getting rid of and why?

At my last job, when we got a new 270 we ended up using BCC 15K-FAST drives
instead of IBM drives.

Out of 10 drives, they just recently had one fail after 2 years.

Charles


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Morrison [mailto:smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 1:26 PM
> To: 'midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Disk Replacement
> 
> 
> We are about to replace 30 non-IBM disk drives with IBM 
> drives in our Model
> 720, running V5R1. The drives are parity protected, in 4 
> parity sets. We are
> running about 60% DASD usage. I have heard of a procedure 
> that will allow us
> to end parity protection, inform the system that we want to 
> remove certain
> drive, allow the system to move data off the drives, so we 
> can replace them
> with the IBM drives. 
> 
> Can someone point me to specific information about how to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 
> Steven D. Morrison
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> Beacon Insurance Group
> 
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