I'm going to find out how this works fairly soon - I've got four of the
4.5 GB SSA drives as my ADSM disk resource, and they're about to be
replace (this week) with the 9 GB drives. This will be for database,
logs, and all disk storage pools. I'm planning on using the center
'stripe' of two of them for my database (now at 61% of 1.3 GB) and
whacking the rest into logical volumes. I'm not sure about the rest - I
hate to split the drives up (the drive usage looks real ugly if you're
writing to one lv and migrating the other lv on the same spindle to
tape) but I really can't plan on keeping a 9 GB pool intact.

I'm on AIX 4.2.1 and ADSM 2.1.5.13

Tom Kauffman
Sr. Technical Analyst
NIBCO, Inc.

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>From:  Richard Sims[SMTP:rbs AT BU DOT EDU]
>Sent:  Friday, November 07, 1997 11:35 AM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       Anyone using 9GB drives?
>
>I would be interested in hearing the observations of any ADSM sites
>using the new high capacity 9GB drives for ADSM, particularly under AIX...
>- What versions/releases of ADSM and AIX?
>- How are you using the space (raw volume; 9GB file system; split up)?
>- For database, recovery log, and/or data?
>- Any observations based upon the experience?
>         thanks, Richard Sims, Boston University
>