RE: Preventive Maintenance Question

[Jerry Adams <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

Thanks.  I obviously recollected the conversation with the CE erroneously.

When I WRKHDWRSC TYPE(*STG), I get:

Resource        Type-model  Status                Text                 
CMB05            2844-001   Operational           Combined function IOP
  DC03           5709-001   Operational           Storage Controller   

Using option 9 (Work with resources) shows:

Resource        Type-model  Status                Text                
DC03             5709-001   Operational           Storage Controller  
  DD013          4326-074   Operational           Disk Unit           
  DD010          4326-074   Operational           Disk Unit           
  DD011          4326-074   Operational           Disk Unit           
  OPT02          6337-002   Operational           Optical Storage Unit
  TAP02          6384-001   Operational           Tape Unit           
  D01            28D2-001   Operational           Device Services     
  DD012          4326-074   Operational           Disk Unit           

Which are the disks, tape, and optical drives (got no idea what D01 is).

Not much chance of swapping out the tape drive.  

Jerry C. Adams
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 10:03 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Preventive Maintenance Question

2844 is not a RAID card.  It is a combined function IOP card.  On new 
hardware the big push is for IOPless.  If you look in WRKHDWRSC *STG you 
should see your 2844 and then any cards it controls embedded underneath 
it.  For example
Resource        Type-model  Status                Text
CMB03            2844-001   Operational           Storage Controller
  DC09           571A-001   Operational           Storage Controller
  TAPMLB01       3573-020   Not detected          Tape Library 

5709 is a RAID enablement card.

I reread your email.  You're using cartridge tapes.  How passe'.  I think 
they are going the way of the dodo bird.  I think your's may stay around 
for the foreseeable future though.  Anything smaller gets whacked.
http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/planning/upgrade/futurehdwr.html
I am going to assume that your tape drive is imbedded on the same imbedded 
controller as the disk drives thus making a simple shift to a different 
bus, not so simple.  I don't know how much a lto3 or 4 tape drive would 
cost you.  I also don't know what the additional maintenance would be 
since it would now be "an external tape drive" and that seems to make IBM 
giddy.  Maybe that's just because it will be it's own serial number when 
you call in for maintenance.

Rob Berendt