That is strange, our LDEV1 is a 1.35 Gbyte drive that is to go out of
support on the 31/08/99

At 03:42 PM 11/18/98 -0500, Ward Hammond wrote:
>It's not so much the number of spindles as the amount of space.  LDev 1
>needs at least 4 GB as a boot device to insure all system required
>functions work properly.  4 GB is also the maximum a non-internal boot
>drive will use (coincidence?).  It is recommended that you have 3 spindles
>on the system volume to handle the performance load of spooling and system
>command calls.  I have setup systems with 1 or 2 spindles but only when I
>was sure the spooling activity would be very low and/or the client was
>aware of the potential problem.
>---------------------- Forwarded by Ward Hammond/Forsythe on 11/18/98 03:29
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>I am setting up a new 969KS120 with mirroring.
>I have all drives but Ldev1 set up as a private volume, mirrored.
>There is only one drive, Ldev1 in the system volume. HP tells me that this
>is a valid configuration.
>
>However, the response centre now tells me that I may (or may not) see
>performance problems since I only have the one spindle in the system
>volume.
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>As far as I can see I will have spool files and transient files going to
>the system volume. Everything else is on the private volume.
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>Anyone have any experience with this?
>
>Keith Porter
>System Manager
>Hamilton Discount Corp.
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