Re: Unit XX With Device Parity Protection not operational?

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:45 02/19/1999 -0800, Steve Roach wrote:
>This morning, our AS/400 popped up a series of messages that looked like
>this:
>
>Unit 25 with device parity protection not fully operational.
>
>This message was repeated for units 25, 26, 27 and 28.  Afterwards, another
>message popped up that stated:
>
>Units with device parity protection fully operational.
>
>Does anyone have any idea what the "units" are?  Are they disk drives?  It
>has me a little worried since our UPS failed and we have been without one
>for several weeks, now.  We are still waiting for a new one.  We are using
>an S30 model running V4R2.

The "not fully operational" messages are issued periodically for each drive
while the parity set is being rebuilt. When the rebuild completes, the
"fully operational" message is issued. I know this because we had a disk
crash this week. I REALLY like raid 5. We didn't even have to end QINTER.

Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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