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  • Subject: Re: RAID set question
  • From: "Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:49:52 -0500

At 12:53 PM 2/12/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Until today I didn't think it was possible to have a RAID set of 10
>drives where only 4 carried striping data.  I now have seen a set with
>10 8G drives, four of which are model 074 (parity across 4 drives) and
>six are model 070 (Parity but no parity data on this drive).

RAID has stupid rules of how many drives to put into a parity set.  To get 
10 into a set, start with 7 and then add 3.

This stuff is too bizarre to make up.

Al




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