I absolutely concur with Doug.  Except for emergency replacements
(fortunately, very few and far between), we spin-test all new disk devices
for at least seven (7) days as a discrete volumeset, and we include several
store/restore tasks.

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From: Doug Werth <[log in to unmask]> on 07/14/99 08:57 AM

Please respond to Doug Werth <[log in to unmask]>


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Subject:  Re: [HP3000-L] Adding a disk to system volume




I would add one more thing here. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER add a new disk to a
production volume set without testing it first. The frequency of drives
that
fail within the first several hours/days of use is much too high to risk
corrupting an entire volume set. This applies to the system volume set and
user volumes.

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