Re: Continuing hunt for a replacement SAS hard drive

It uses a SAS switch.  I did get two xSeries drives that appeared to be a match  but the IBM i didn't see them.  Right now I see this in the logs with all the original hardware/drives (when I added the new xSeries drive, it still showed the same status)


Message ID . . . . . . :   CPI1136       Severity . . . . . . . :   99
Message type . . . . . : Information
Date sent  . . . . . . :   04/23/18      Time sent  . . . . . . :   06:48:18

Message . . . . :   Mirrored protection still suspended.
Cause . . . . . :   Mirrored protection is still suspended on one or more disk
  units. To determine which disk units have mirrored protection suspended, use
  the Work with Disk Status (WRKDSKSTS) command and press F11 (Display storage
  use). For more detailed information, do the following:

And SST shows this:

                     Display Disk Configuration Protection

           Serial Resource                      Hot Spare
 ASP Unit  Number          Type Model Name Protection         Protection
   1 Mirrored
        1* YWEB5KZWKZRX    6B22  050  DD004 Unprotected             N
        1  Y9EJAR7L8YMZ    6B22  050  DD003 Unprotected             N
        2  Y384SV9UX3VE    6B22  050  DD001 Unprotected             N
        2  YJA2X8PBPAUR    6B22  050  DD002 Unprotected             N


                       Display Disk Configuration Status

           Serial Resource                      Hot Spare
 ASP Unit  Number          Type Model Name Status             Protection
   1 Mirrored
        1* YWEB5KZWKZRX    6B22  050  DD004 Suspended               N
        1  Y9EJAR7L8YMZ    6B22  050  DD003 Active                  N
        2  Y384SV9UX3VE    6B22  050  DD001 Active                  N
        2  YJA2X8PBPAUR    6B22  050  DD002 Suspended               N

In the process of ordering a different set of drives and I'll see if those have a better result.

Pete Helgren
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On 4/21/2018 5:03 PM, Roberto José Etcheverry Romero wrote:

Huh,
A few questions.
1. Does the JS12 connect thru a SAS RAID module or just the SAS Switch? if
it's a SAS Switch and the blade manages the RAID it should work.
2. I believe blades force you to use VIOS, if so, almost any xseries disk
should work. is the mirror done thru software (mirrorios) or thru the sas
raid controller in the JS12?
I've used those blades but connected to FC storages or DS3200 SAS storages.
Best Regards,
Roberto