These units have hot swappable power supplies and discs. Therefore, a shutdown is not required (unless of course it is part of the system volume). They are only High availability if you are mirroring them with Mirror/IX. -----Original Message----- From: John Zoltak [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 1998 10:01 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: 4.3GB Drives Failing So where does the "high availability" part come in? Maybe on the shelf, in-stock, in-the-trunk? John Zoltak North American Mfg Co > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Herrin [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 1998 6:30 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] 4.3GB Drives Failing > > Last Monday our CE came out and installed a high availability storage > system with two 4.3GB half-height drives. We defined a new volume set > (PV_SET) with LDEV 5 as the master and LDEV 9 as member1. I created > an > account and groups on the private volume set and copied some files to > it. Everything was fine until today. It looks like LDEV 5 (the > master) > is down. DSTAT shows the status of LDEV 5 as UNKNOWN and LDEV 9 as > LONER. The CE is coming out at 5:00 to replace the drive. > > I sure am glad I didn't add these drives to my > MPEXL_SYSTEM-VOLUME-SET! > Tnanks for the good advice Neil Harvey. > -- > Tim Herrin > Wingate University > (704) 233-8150