From: "Robert Comer" 

> Having come from the mini systems to the pc I can tell you there really
> isn't much difference when working on the hardware, drives are drives you
> connect the cables and presto.. The difference is in the commands you have
> to use to format and activate stuff, but the hardware is just hardware.

I'll add and utilize those disks hot and in the middle of the day, no need
to reboot. 

It'll even balance out the scatter loading, but that'll take a lot longer...

- Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Richard B."  wrote in message
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> > about when things go south. I generally have a handle on the PC side
> > of things, but would certainly be a newbie on the AS/400. What OS are
> > you running on it?
>
> Richard,
>
> Having come from the mini systems to the pc I can tell you there really
> isn't much difference when working on the hardware, drives are drives you
> connect the cables and presto.. The difference is in the commands you have
> to use to format and activate stuff, but the hardware is just hardware.
>
> Just changed a DDS3 tape drive to a DDS4 tape drive on an RS6000 a couple
> weeks ago, no big deal.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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