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Subject: Re: Load source question (RE: Disk Upgrade)
From: James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:20:40 -0800
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tkreimer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

What is up with the "load source" disk anyway? With RAID 5 and other disk striping technologies, how is one disk more significant? I asked this to a pretty good SE once and they could not explain it. So if the load source disk in a RAID array were to fail, would the machine not IPL? (This is just a question, not an attack or gripe of any kind!)

The LIC has to come from somewhere, and it has to be up before striped drives are readable.

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RE: Load source question (RE: Disk Upgrade) , McKown, John

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