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Re: Mixing Disk Drives?

Re-Striping is never automatic. You must select the RAID set in question (In this case the only one) and select STOP RAID. Then turn right around and do START RAID and this set will be rebuilt with stripe data on all 8 drives (in this case 12.5% loss per drive)
I have done this isn some cases but because it requires your data be unprotected from the beginning of Stop RAID to the end of Start RAID you should have a good SAVE 21 or SAVSTG backup handy just in case. You will likely not gain any performance in this case except when there is a failed drive. You gain NO additional protection with the striping on 2 4 or 8 drives. In any case if you lose one drive, you're OK, lose two you're toast. Note that there is ONE new controller for V5R4 that supports RAID 6 which allows you to lose two drives and survive. Of course you lose two drives worth of capacity in a RAID 6 set. 

 - Larry

Chris Bipes wrote:

This has to be done in restricted state.  I don't know if adding the
8th's drive will re-stripe or not.  Perhaps someone else can chime in
here. 

Christopher Bipes
Information Services Director
CrossCheck, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 8:54 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Mixing Disk Drives?

Chris, can you explain the steps involved with rebuilding the raid set?

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