From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 21:56:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D77816A4CF for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 21:56:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1305B43D5F for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 21:56:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D65DF39F85; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:56:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC9939C27 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:56:26 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:56:26 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040806184527.E80911@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: 6x36G drives in a RAID5 config == ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 21:56:27 -0000 I have a server with 6x36g drives in her, hanging off an Intel RAID controller, so that I can access it from FreeBSD using storcon ... According to StorCon: The drives are all Capacity 34971MB ... 'Configure Array Drive' says that Capacity s 139884MB ... Shouldn't capacity be closer to 174855MB if all drives are used as part of the Array? Am I right that the 6th drive is 'the hot spare' in this case? Thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664