Ron Burnett wrote:
 
>Greetings from a cold winter's day down under:
 
Likewise, from a nice summer's day in Seattle...   :-)
 
>Last Wednesday, round about 5:30 a.m., we suffered our
>fourth disk failure.  With MirrorDisk/iX, the system stayed
>up--users didn't even know it happened.
 
I will use Ron's success story as another opportunity to
solict help from all MirrorDisk/iX users who will be at HP
World - Anaheim, to politely agitate for HP to finish that
last little important thing they left out when they released
the current version;  i.e.:  The ability to mirror the
MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET.
 
I'll admit that having a disc in the <long name> blow up is
not quite as bad as having a non-mirrored disc in a user vol
go down;  *providing*:  You have a current SLT with *all* HP
and other files that are on the volume;  *AND* you have
enough space on the remaining spindles to do an install
of the <long name>.....  We have both, so in theory we could
be back online pretty quick....  But there is still unplanned
down time, and we would still have to do an install... Ugly...
 
As I said at the IPROF-96 Management Roundtable,
MirrorDisk/iX is a great product;  and it would fill the last
noticeable hole to be able to mirror the <long name>.
 
.....  SIDEBAR:  We named our two non-system volumes
USER and BACKUP.   I wonder if someday we will have
an option to call the <long name> just  SYSTEM  or etc...
.... obviously this is a long way from the top of any "must
have" enhancement list...... but....  sigh.....
 
Ken "Haven't lost a <long name> spindle.... yet" Sletten