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Subject: Re: Changing out drives on a 170: any "gotchas"?
From: "Lukas Beeler" <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:13:31 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Keith Carpenter <entropypool@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Roger Harman wrote:
> I was surprised to see Lucas' statement on that. I highly doubt it. My
> 270-2248 isn't hot-swappable, I know that for sure. Had to be a bigger
> 270 to have concurrent maintenance.
Lukas only said the cages are hot swappable. The RAID controller must
also support hot swap.

Exactly.

By the way, here's a nice checklist for replacing a disk in a mirrored
load source scenario:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/rzaly/rzalyloadsourcegeo.htm

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