Nothing like relying on good advice from folks who've 'been there, done 
that'.  Regarding both your posts to the 3000 list, IS there an HP 
supported solution for replacing the 4GB internal LDEV1 with something 
that supports RAID (or at least mirroring)?  We currently have our 
production data in 'Jamaica' units, fully mirrored (Mirror/iX), but indeed 
I've been worried about the ancient LDEV1 ... enough that we do everything 
possible to NOT shutdown power.  It has reached the point where I have 
concern that if the drive ever lost it's taste for power ... it might 
never spin up again and the thought of a RELOAD is not fun.

We currently have our system on full HP Support.
LDEV: 1;  Type: ST34573WC;  Size: 4.29Gb;  Path: 10/4/24.6.0

Any advice, specific hardware make/models, software for addressing the 
single LDEV1 situation would be appreciated.

Thank you.

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Date:    Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:51:52 -0800
From:    donna hofmeister <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: HP3000 Homesteading Questions

...... i'll as strongly as possible urge you to look at
upgrading your disc.  it's probably the one component most likely to
fail on your box -- especially if you're still running internal 4 or
8gb drives.  if your drives have been in service for more than 8-10
years (did you put in new disc to upgrade to 5.5 for y2k?), imo you're
skating on thin ice!  it's a matter of time before you'll be changing
disc in a panic instead easily over some weekend.  so ask your vendor
-- do you have staff that can assist with a disk migration?

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Date:    Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:17:23 -0600
From:    John Lee <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: HP3000 Homesteading Questions

Superb advice from donna.  I've been doing this for 12 years and the sites 
we support who have the smoothest operation do as donna suggests.  They 
rarely have unscheduled downtime or emergencies.

And one more word on old disc.  If you're not RAIDed, you're not doing 
your homework.  It's inexpensive and light years ahead of old internal SE 
SCSI disc.

John Lee
Vaske Computer Solutions

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