RE: Some fun things not to try at home

From: tkaczma@gryf.net
Date: Tue Dec 28 1999 - 14:05:51 EST


On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Priebe, Jason wrote:

> > Are you implying that you'd rather use 6 drives per shelf
> > rather than 7?
>
> No -- I'm just assuming that the 7th disk (the hot spare) is drawing
> little or no power. Perhaps this is a bad assumption.

As far as spin-up this IS incorrect. All the disks are spun up to see
which volume they belong to, etc. This is necessary because there is no
requirement (at least in the later versions of the OS) to the ordering of
disks.

Tom



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