We have a 4-way F50 w/ a 3575 L12 (2 3570 B type drives) and have been very
happy so far - running AIX 4.2.1 with the latest TCP/IP and tty patches,
ADSM 3.1.1.3, 332 MHz processors, 512 MB RAM, and 4 of the new 9.1 GB SCSI
drives. 100+ clients (mix of NT, 95, VMS, and AIX). Very fast. The only
problems encountered so far are that the system firmware code installed on
the F50 when the machine shipped was not a new enough version to support
the 332 processors - We had intermittent (every 2 weeks or so) crashes with
a SRN that indicated an I/O planar failure. The tech that replaced the
planar installed one with even an older firmware level - IBM was surprised
it even booted - it didn't run long though. After the firmware update not
another crash - now it has been almost 19 days of uptime and counting.

One annoying thing so far about the tape drives though is that one of the
two seems to want to be continuously cleaned. I was told that there was a
firmware update for the drives to address a possible cause of this problem
but I can't find anyone who knows about it - Anyone out there have a
similar problem and a solution???

Also, from newbie experience, I would want a minimum of three drives in the
future. It seems that whenever there is a long running process that is
using two of the drives, ADSM wants to do a database backup and that has
precedence - I am currently evaluating point in time recovery and have the
database backup trigger enabled - aborting the long running process.





Karl Roessmann <roess AT AND.MPI-STUTTGART.MPG DOT DE> on 08/04/98 02:28:20 AM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>

To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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Subject:  IBM RS6000 F50 4-way




we are planning to move our ADSM server to an
IBM RS6000 F50 4-way.
Anybody have good or bad experiences with ADSM
on this hardware ?
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