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Thanks Jerry. I always forget about iNav. It presents an easier to read picture but I still can't figure out where the "empty cage" is attached (if at all). I may just stuff a drive in there and see if it shows up as an unconfigured unit somewhere.

Pete


Jerry Adams wrote:
Pete,

I don't know about HMC, but System i Navigator has some "stuff" under Configuration and Services/Hardware/Disk Units that might give you what you want. You do need an SST id and password to access the Disk Units segment.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:38 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Disk upgrade with no downtime - possible? Follow up question

Thanks Kirk. That was what I needed.

(I may be needing Dr. Franken at this point) I was told by this customer that the expansion unit was full. That is, there wasn't any room to stick 5 additional drives into the unit. However, when I go to the expansion unit itself and open each of the cages, there is one cage that is completely empty and two others that have 5 slots open in total. So, the question is: How do I find out what controller these "cages" are connected to? I am guessing that they are allocated to the production side but if I can see what is allocated to each partition, I might be able to stuff these 5 drives into the remaining cage and add it to the LPAR (if it hasn't been) and then just create a new parity set.

I can print out a rack config I guess but it would be great to see a "map" and understand how the hardware is allocated to each LPAR. Is there a way to do that? Can the HMC do that for me?

Pete

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