Re: Quick Survey -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Quick Survey
From: Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:22:57 -0500
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Our Model 740 is mirrored at the bus level and supports concurrentmaintenance. Concurrent maintenance is not supported on all models,however. We have a Model 40S that is mirrored also and it has to bebrought down to replace a disk.


rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

You can use the system while it is rebuilding the parity set.  We do.
Can you remove a drive from a mirrored set, replace it with a new drive,and restart mirroring with zero user interruption? We do that with raid5,during normal business hours.
Rob Berendt

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