I think the point to this question was that the volume set the drives were being removed was not doing anything other than stress testing the drives in question.  It is certainly possible to remove drives from one volume set and add them to the system volume set.  No reload is required if you are just adding to the system volume.  Note, however, that the newly added drives to the system volume are going to be worked a LOT in the beginning until their used space more closely matches those already there.

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Gary L. Paveza, Jr.
Technical Support Specialist
All opinions are mine and not those of my employer

-----Original Message-----
From:   Stan Sieler [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Friday, March 12, 1999 7:56 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Moving Disc to Sys Vol Set

Hi,

I said:
> A volume cannot be removed from a volume set, sorry.

Forrest said:
> Sure it can.  Just be prepared to do a reload.

What you have then is an unusable volume set (the one the
disk is "removed" from)

It's like saying "a single card is at the bottom of a house of cards...
can I remove it".  The answer is both yes and no ... because it depends
upon unstated assumptions.  Yes, you can remove it...and the house of cards
collapses.  No, you can't remove it without collapsing the house of cards.

What I meant by saying "cannot" was:

   If you take a disk that's a member of an existing volume set,
   and "remove" it from the set (e.g., "scratchvol" or *any* other
   technique), then the original volume set is nearly useless
   (the other disks in the volume set may as well be scratched/re-used)

So, the completely technically correct answer is "yes, you can remove it"...
but the *useful* answer is "no, you cannot" (because what remains behind is
relatively useless).

BTW, you don't have to do a reload (which usually means "restore *all* files
from tape) if you are zapping a user volume set ... at worst, you only
have to restore the files that were on that volume set.

Hope this clears things up :)

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