Three drive raid set.

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Anyone else out there have serious performance issues with a three drive 
raid set?  We are.  And we even ran STRASPBAL.  IBM tried iDoctor, etc. 
Nothing out of the ordinary.  So, their suggestion is a STRASPBAL *ENDALC 
and then add them back in with STRASPBAL *CAPACITY.

Our BP says he knows of another customer that had the same issue but just 
ordered another drive and it was solved.  Never opened pmr with IBM.

Trying to find a few "me too's", hopefully with pmr #'s, to encourage IBM 
to look harder.

We will buy more drives.  We were hoping to put it off awhile.  Boss does 
think that getting them in before year end is a good thing though, 
budgetwise.

System ASP . . . . . . . :     3316 G
% system ASP used  . . . :    74.9333

WRKDSKSTS
               Size    %     I/O   Request   Read  Write
Unit  Type      (M)  Used    Rqs  Size (K)    Rqs   Rqs 
...
50  4327    52923  74.9   15.3      8.6     7.0    8.2
51  4327    70564  74.9   25.3      7.9    13.7   11.6
52  4327    61744  74.9   29.4      6.4    17.7   11.6
53  4327    70564  74.9  131.3      5.9    47.3   83.9
54  4327    35282  74.9   50.7      6.6    13.8   36.8
55  4327    35282  74.9   70.0      5.6    22.0   47.9

The last three are the raid set in question.

Rob Berendt
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