Re: Am I RAIDed or mirrored

[R Bruce Hoffman <bruce.hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

3 drives, Raid5.

Should use SST/DST and check for unconfigured units or open the box and 
count drives. If your order did say 4 drives, you should have 4 drives.

Aaron Bartell wrote:
> Your comments lead me to believe that IBM might have a history of
> incorrectly configuring a machine - yikes!  Here are both screen shots from
> WRKDSKSTS.  What does this tell me?  Based on what you said, I would guess I
> have RAID5, correct?
>
>
>                             Work with Disk Status
> WHITE
>                                                             10/31/09
> 07:41:27
> Elapsed time:
> 00:00:00
>
>
>                Size    %     I/O   Request   Read  Write   Read  Write
> %
> Unit  Type      (M)  Used    Rqs  Size (K)    Rqs   Rqs     (K)   (K)
> Busy
>    1  433C    93063  10.2     .0       .0      .0     .0     .0     .0
> 0
>    2  433C    93063   8.9     .0       .0      .0     .0     .0     .0
> 0
>    3  433C    93063   8.9     .0       .0      .0     .0     .0     .0
> 0
>
>
>
>                             Work with Disk Status
> WHITE
>                                                             10/31/09
> 07:41:27
> Elapsed time:
> 00:00:00
>
>
>
> --Protection--
> Unit  ASP  Type  Status
> Compression
>    1    1  DPY
> ACTIVE
>    2    1  DPY
> ACTIVE
>    3    1  DPY
> ACTIVE
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:28 AM, R Bruce Hoffman <
> bruce.hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > No, on raid5 with 4 drives you have 3x the storage of one drive.
> > On raid1 (mirror) you have half of 4 or 2x the storage of one drive.
> > One of the other services we provide is reading and checking the orders
> > for things like raid/mirror specify.
> >
> > WRKDSKSTS and press F11 to check how many drives and the protection.
> >
> > Yes, you got 4G of ram.
> >
> >
> >