In the last episode (Jan 11), Jo Rhett said:
> >On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:56:43 -0800 Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Thanks for the reply. The problem is that I have a single 6-drive
> >>(550gb/ea) RAID-5 array. If I split two disks off to make a RAID-1
> >>boot device, I'll lose 1TB of usable storage.
>
> On Jan 11, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> >Hmm, why can't you just make your controller create two logical arrays
> >onto the one physical array? Doesnt the controller support this
> >feature?
>
> Not any one that I've ever seen in commodity disks. Yes, on big
> fiber channel disk cabinets. No to 6-8 drive raid controllers.
I've got ancient AMI Megaraid controllers (Dell PERC 2/Si cards) that
can put multiple logical drives on one RAID set, so I'm surprised that
a modern controller can't.
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Dan Nelson
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