We too have been in the circus that is "DASD" support on the MP3K. We doubled the disk we had in the office box - refurbed disk from somewhere. When it arrived the box wouldn't accept it - something about a mismatch on the ucode levels of the box it came out of and our box. Our (IBM) CE located a floppy elsewhere and (eventually) got around it. Then there were issues with the tracking in Retain methinks. All-in-all a right "song and dance". Certainly not something we'd do without IBM holding the screwdriver.
Shane ... From: "Ed Long" > One other thing noted by one of the other respondents. > In order to add the new physical drive into the existing array some interesting steps need to occur: > 1: System in service mode. > 2: The drive has to be 'commissioned' (IIRC the verb); this can only be done if it was properly decommissioned when it was deinstalled. In reference to the fancy microcode comment, this is where it comes in. We had a drive shipped by taxi by IBM that could not be recommissioned because of how it was decommissioned. They also shipped us some known bad drives, but that was another story. > 3: Once its commissioned, the Raid 5 array has to be rebuilt. This rebuild buries the Intel processor for quite a while as I recall; it also drives the physical i/o on the remaining disks in the array to the max. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
