Re: hot spare disk -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: hot spare disk
From: "Lukas Beeler" <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:35:16 +0200
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Greg Wenzloff <GWenzloff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We have a new 525 still in the box and am trying to coordinate the
install. Business partner (Sirious) says that I can not have a hot
spare disk unless using RAID 6.

That's wrong. The critical point when creating an array with a hot
spare disk is that the disk must NOT be part of any ASP when creating
the RAID5 array. Otherwise, it won't work.

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