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  Asked: Nov 14 2007   4:22 PM GMT
  Asked by: Nosaints

disk degraded


Disk drives, WRKDSKSTS, AS/400

My as400 is showing a status of 'degraded' when doing a 'wrkdsksts'. I would assume that one of the disk has failed but all say operational when using display hardware resources. Help!

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Last Answered: Nov 30 2007  5:59 PM GMT  by Rickmcd


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If you use F1 (Help) on the display you will see in the help text:

DEGRADED
Indicates that a decrease in performance has occurred because a
component that is not critical has failed. No data is lost due
to this failure, but the damaged unit needs to be repaired or
replaced.


Bruce Vining
Bruce Vining Services


It could be your cache battery needs replacing.
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Nosaints  |   Nov 15 2007  9:56PM GMT

but how do you know what is the damaged unit

 

Bvining  |   Nov 16 2007  12:11PM GMT

On the WRKDSKSTS display the unit number is shown. Using F1 on the unit value you see:

The disk unit identifier is the same number used by the display
disk configuration function of system service tools.

 

Roblumley  |   Nov 26 2007  6:48PM GMT

The most common fault for this is the battery that is used for disk caching needs replacing.