RE: Installing my First Concurrent Disk Drive - Any Tips?

1. Install all 4 drives and do not add to ASP.  2. Build raid 5 set with
the 4 new drives.  3. Add new set to ASP and balance.  Adding the drives
does not make them available until you add to ASP or build new ASP.  If
you add to ASP prior to building RAID 5 you will really kill your system
while it moves data around to build the RAID 5 striping.  Takes seconds
on empty drives that are not in use and days for drive that have been
added to the ASP and are being used.

Hope your hospital stay was not to serious and all is ok now.


Christopher Bipes
Information Services Director
CrossCheck, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DebbieKelemen
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:42 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Installing my First Concurrent Disk Drive - Any Tips?

I'm in Colorado.  Thanks for the offer to hand hold.  I really
appreciate
it.  I'm on V5R3 and I'm sure I'm raid 5.  I actually have 4 drive total
to
add.  The boss was unsure of me adding 4 in one day.  So he thought I
should
do one today, then if it went well, I could do the other 3 tomorrow.  So
it
sounds like I should either do two today & two tomorrow.  Or bite the
bullet
& do all 4 today.

The 4 days have been in the computer room in the box for over two weeks
now.
I was in the hospital when they arrived so we had a slight delay in me
getting around to this.