RE: Hot Swap Drives

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 10:58 AM
To: Midrange-L (midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: Hot Swap Drives

We just found out that, when a vendor says their disk drives
are "hot swappable," this means different things. For
example, we have had two drives on our i go south. The CE
swapped them out while the rest of the company been on about
their merry way. It was a little slow while it balanced the
drives, but no interference with the business.

Had a drive on our Windows server go south. Sure you can
replace the drive with the replacement while the server is
running, but in order for the system to recognize the drive,
the server has to be re-booted.

I like the System i definition better.

Jerry C. Adams

Thinking about it a bit more, in your Windows case, the "hot swappable"
likely means "replaceable without a power off".

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John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
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