Here is the solution from Lance Brown that sums it all up (also the first
response). Thanks to all that reply.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lance A. Brown" <brown9_at_niehs.nih.gov>
To: "Alex Liu" <aliu_at_gte.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: RAID Configuration Problems
> Greetings,
>
> The Mylex controllers have a 32 Gigabyte size limitation for their
> logical drives. BUT, you can create more than one logical disk in a
> RAID group without incurring the cost of additional "parity" drives.
>
> You do this by grouping your 6 91.GB disks together in a groups,
> select RAID-5 for the level and put in a size <= 32768MB. You can
> then select that same group again and create a 2nd logical disk using
> the remaining storage. Only 1 disks worth of parity data is used for
> the whole RAID-5 group, but you end up with 2 logical disks presented
> to the system.
>
> --[Lance]
>
>
Received on Fri Feb 11 2000 - 00:16:22 NZDT