Re: Reaching the tipping point on my JS12 blade

No way I can describe the countless hours I have spent with the Blade
Center folks trying to get my i partition on the JS12 to keep running.
The partition crashes when the blade loses contact with the SAS storage
module.  The BCS folks say it is an IBM i OS issue, or at least think
so, although I have yet to understand the connection between the i OS
and the SAS storage module.  The module comes up missing with no SAS
drives even though I haven't even started the partition.  The blade
doesn't even see the SAS module so I don't see how the i partition even
plays here.  I DO know this, if you run the i partition long enough, it
will fail.  How long, nobody knows.....

So here is the latest depressing news.  Convinced that IBM i was source
of the problem, the BCS folks recommended I load the latest CUME.  I
spent a day and a half downloading the entire CUME and managed this
afternoon to get the files ftp'd to the partition and an image catalog
built and loaded.  So I started the process of loading a PTF package
and, you guessed it, the blade crashed about 75% through the process, at
the point where it was setting the IPL actions.

So here (after my whining) is my question:

1. Can I re-load the OS without hammering my data?
2. If I don't lose my data, what do I lose by re-installing the OS?

I don't think I have ever tried to re-install the OS, except from scratch.

Seems to me that yes, I can reinstall, although the thought of the
partition crashing in the middle of *that* send chills down my spine.
Right now the partition will IPL on the A side (just like an earlier
post from me back last fall) but as far as I can recall, it seems to me
there is no way to "fix" the B side without re-loading from DVD.  But I
don't want to lose the data.

This is such a bummer and time waster......

Pete Helgren

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