Intel AS/400 RISC Server - Manual (Page 206)

14.2.2 RAID Hot Spare
For the following test, the IO workload was setup to run for 14 hours. About 5 hours after
starting A DASD was pulled from the configurations. This forced a RAID set rebuild.
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