On 4/5/06, McLoughlin, John <jmclough@akamai.com> wrote:

Yes, Nate. It will prefer the 36GB drive over the 144GB drive. OnTap has
a sense for how big a drive is and selects the closest sized drive for
spares. ;)

Thanks,
John.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Patwardhan [mailto:nvp@akamai.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:50 PM
To: Tim McCarthy
Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: OnTap 6.x, mixed shelves, and spares.

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:56:32PM -0400, Tim McCarthy wrote:
: ontap will only ever use a disk that is at lest as big as the failed
: disk. In other words, ontap may:
: grab a 144 to replace a 36

Alrighty. But if I load the FC9s with an ample number of 36g drives,
would OnTap more likely than not pull from the FC9 before the DS14?

: Also, since you have FC9 shelves, you may have 36GB Zoned checksum
: disks. If they are, then you can replace them with either zoned or
block
: checksum disks. However, at the 36GB capacity, zoned disks are 34.5G

I think ours show as 34g.

Thanks for your response!

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