Re: Reducing number of disks with RAID5 active.

[Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Might get away with that part if not all of the disk have parity on them.

Problem will be that you need to powerdown to remove a disk


On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't think you can do what you wantt with a damaged raid set... I could
> be wrong though...
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Roger Vicker, CCP <rv-tech@xxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
> > I am trying to salvage an old system on V5R4 using Raid5 on nine disk
> > drives.
> >
> > Disk Unit 1 has failed. I want to remove Disk Unit 9 from the pool
> > (moving data off) and remove it from the Raid Set. Then use it to
> > replace the failed Unit 1.
> >
> > I have only been able to find online documentation on doing this with
> > iSeries Navigator. However, the copy I have does not show anything under
> > <Configuration><Hardware><Disk Units>. Can this be done with just SST
> > (and maybe DST) and if so would someone mind posting a link.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Roger Vicker, CCP
> >
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