Hi David,

if I understand it right you have a Nike Model 10 Disk Array with 10 (?) 9
GB Disks.
Two of them have been configured with gridmgr in RAID 1, and you want to
use this pair for LDEV 1.

This is possible - we have a similiar setup.

If you want to have your 9 GB disk pair as LDEV 1 you need to run an
INSTALL of course, and at the end the system will only know 4 GB out of
these 9 GB for LDEV 1. This is the meaning of supported in this context:
not 9 GB are supported on LDEV 1 (but 9 GB disks, only 4 GB will be
useable).

On a test system I have two internal 9 GB disk, and LDEV 1 looks finally
like a 4 GB disk:

LDEV :     1 -- (MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET:MEMBER1)
 Device    |   16777200        |    8361536 ( 50%) |    8415664 ( 50%) |
 Permanent |   12582864 ( 75%) |    7880784 ( 47%) |    4702080 ( 28%) |
 Transient |   12582864 ( 75%) |     480752 (  3%) |    8415664 ( 50%) |

LDEV :     2 -- (MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET:MEMBER2)
 Device    |   35547040        |   17429200 ( 49%) |   18117840 ( 51%) |
 Permanent |   26660272 ( 75%) |   16744848 ( 47%) |    9915424 ( 28%) |
 Transient |   26660272 ( 75%) |     684352 (  2%) |   18117840 ( 51%) |

 ... you see the difference in DISCFREE ?

Best regards, Andreas Schmidt, CSC, Germany





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Subject:  [HP3000-L] Model 10 Array and 9GB Drives on MPE/ix


Hello Good People,

I am in the process of setting up a Model 10 Disk Array for a customer with
an MPE/ix box and have configured a 9GB RAID1 volume (non-system) on it.
MPE/ix is able to see the volume and all of the sectors that should be
there.  The manual for the array states that 9GB drives aren't supported
under MPE/ix.  Can anyone tell me if that's a reference to 9GB on LDEV1 or
is there some other 'gotcha' that I'm not seeing yet?  I say it works
unless
someone can tell me different.

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David Friswell - Customer Engineer
Datagate, Inc. - www.datagateinc.com