----- Original Message ----- From: Kendall Libby fubar@mathworks.com To: Jason Lavoie jason@mint.net Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 2:00 PM Subject: 9GB disks
"jason" == Jason Lavoie jason@mint.net writes:
jason> Can I use 18GB drives in this shelf (and only use the first 9GB jason> of each)? I've gotten conflicting answers about this from jason> Netapp.
Don't Do That. It Hurts. Unless those are old 9gb FC-AL disks.
He said they were FC-AL.
I don't know if his shelf supports 18GB. If they do, adding new ones is trivial. You actually don't use just the first 9GB; what happens is the first 18GB will become the parity disk, so your old 9GB disk would become available for data. Then subsequent 18GB disks will give you the full 18GB of space each.
If you need a new shelf, then you could buy a new shelf, and still use the old 9GB disks in it.
Bruce