RE: Load Source Replacement

Thanks for the verification, Jim. Once I found out who was doing the work,
frankly, I didn't have a whole lot of confidence; he used to write programs
here as a consultant before I came on full-time. How much faith can you
have in an IBM i programmer who writes new code in RPG II?

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything. -Bill Veeck.
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 8:30 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Load Source Replacement

All he had to do was replace the failed unit and allow the RAID set to
rebuild. Assuming you've done it before, 30 minutes to replace the drive,
walk away. A couple of hours later the RAID set will be rebuilt. Clearly
this individual did not understand the process to swap a failed drive.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 3/6/2012 8:25 AM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:

Got a situation at my former employer. They closed the doors over a
year ago, but kept the System i (Model 520 on V5R4) at their BP's
office. I still have access to the machine so a couple of weeks ago I
noticed that the system was sending messages that one of the disk
drives (RAID5) had gone south. Obviously the BP wasn't checking the

system so I notified them.

The defunct unit was the load source drive. The guy at the BP, who
eventually started working on it, told me that he went through steps
to do a Save 21, replace the drive, and a whole lot of other steps,
including restoring from the backup and then installing the PTFs
(which ones he didn't say).



All of which, I thought, was overkill. Even though it was the load
source drive, couldn't the bad disk unit have simply been
de-activated, replaced, and re-activated? We have several disks go
back on the two systems, and I have a vague recollection (senility may
be rearing its ugly head here) that we once lost the load source and
IBM just went through the replacement while the warehouse kept pulling

orders.

Even if the load source is special in this regard, couldn't the BP
simply have re-installed the system from the Save 21 tape? Never had
to do it, but I thought that's what it was for.



Jerry C. Adams

IBM i Programmer/Analyst

In fact, I even kept voting for him after he died, because I'd rather
vote for a dead man with class than two live bums. -Bill Veeck on
Norman Thomas

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