Dear Mls,

You can create using different size of disks for same raid group. It is function of ONTAP, so called "Mixed size".

Please calculate your disk size and storage size. Probably, You can find interest something.

-motoyoshi Jeff Kennedy wrote:

The reason is someone added 9gb drives to an 18gb drive volume ( or vice versa, hard to tell which was first ). They're not different effective disk sizes, they are different *actual* disk sizes. Effective size diff would be

RAID Disk HA.ID HA SHELF BAY CHAN Used (MB/blks) Phys (MB/blks)

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data 8.18 8 2 2 FC:A 8600/17612800 17366/35566480

Which is not the case. The physical column will always report the actual disk size.

~JK

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Premanshu Jain wrote:

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Hi, Can anybody tell me the reason, Same raidgroup having different effective size disk. Thanks

RAID group 1

RAID Disk HA.ID HA SHELF BAY CHAN Used (MB/blks) Phys (MB/blks)

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parity 8.24 8 3 0 FC:A 17000/34816000 17366/35566480 data 8.18 8 2 2 FC:A 8600/17612800 8683/17783112 data 8.0 8 0 0 FC:A 8600/17612800 8683/17783112 data 8.19 8 2 3 FC:A 8600/17612800 8683/17783112 data 8.45 8 5 5 FC:A 17000/34816000 17366/35566480 data 8.44 8 5 4 FC:A 17000/34816000 17366/35566480 data 8.25 8 3 1 FC:A 17000/34816000 17366/35566480 data 8.26 8 3 2 FC:A 17000/34816000 17366/35566480 data 8.27 8 3 3 FC:A 17000/34816000 17366/35566480 data 8.46 8 5 6 FC:A 17000/34816000 17366/35566480 data 8.43 8 5 3 FC:A 17000/34816000 17366/35566480

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Jeff Kennedy Unix Administrator AMCC jlkennedy@amcc.com