Re: 283GB Drives in a set of 139GB Disks..

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is the pic from Service Tools:

Set  ASP Unit  Type Model Name       Status
  1            57B5  001  DC14       RAID 5
       2    2  19B0  099  DMP064     Active
       2    3  19B0  099  DMP066     Active
       2    5  19B0  099  DMP040     Active
       2    4  19B0  099  DMP042     Active
       *    *  19B1  090  DMP080     Active
       *    *  19B1  090  DMP085     Active

Note that the 19B0s are 139G and the 19B1s are 283s....

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 4/26/2014 11:39 PM, DrFranken wrote:

> In a first for me as I did not think it possible. I added two disks to a
> partition that had both 139s and 283s. The 139s are in ASP(2) and there
> are only 6 of those. The 283s are ASP(1) and the two RAID sets there are
> at the limit of 18 drives each.
>
> After initializing the two drives (they are used) I selected 'Include in
> RAID protection' in SST. I didn't read the confirmation screen closely
> enough and let them add to RAID.
>
> When I went to add them to the ASP I DID read that confirmation screen
> to confirm that I would be adding 566 GB but NO it was only 278! Upon
> further review of the RAID sets I saw that the 283GB drives were now
> part of a 139GB drive raid set and only that much of their capacity was
> in use.
>
> Didn't know this was even possible....
>
> 5913 RAID cards on POWER7 with TR6 of IBM i 7.1...