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Re: 18+ hours to initialize a load source?

Dead cache battery with a 6 drive RAID set of 280 GB 10K RPMS Drives with one drive dead?

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On 10/1/2014 6:24 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Does this seem just a wee bit excessive?

The load source disk is being initialized.
Elapsed time in minutes . . . . . . . . : 1124.0

Going on 19 hours...

Resetting a P6 from formerly multiple partitions down to just one lpar of
IBM i to prep it for decommissioning.
IBM i 7.1
I forget what kind of drives the CEC had in it. Yes, the CEC was tagged
as the load source. T9 as the load source and Alternate IPL (DVD).

Rob Berendt


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