I have used HP replacements with a different label but same size drives for
mirroring.

 Works for me...

Joseph Dolliver
e3k Solutions, Inc
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----- Original Message -----
From: Sletten Kenneth W KPWA <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: Mirrored Disks


> G. muses:
>
> > Pete writes:
> > > A customer of theirs has mirrored disks, 4 9gb drives. Is
> > > it possible just to replace them with 4 18gb drives without a re-
> > > load or anything?
> >
> > You *might* get away with replacing each side of the mirror
> > with bigger disks (one side at a time followed by resyncing), but
> > then you would end up with 18GB disks that you could only use
> > 9GB of, since the on-disk structures like the free space bitmap
> > would still be those of a 9GB drive.
>
> While I won't bet the ranch G.'s above cannot be made to work, all
> the manuals and info I have on Mirror Disc/iX sez that the two
> spindles in a mirror pair have to be an EXACT match in every way
> (at least in every detectable difference, whatever that is)...  If the
> two discs ID themselves with different model numbers, I'm relatively
> sure that alone will prevent inserting the spindle as one side of a
> mirror pair....    If anybody thinks I'm wrong about that, I would be
> interested in hearing any evidence to the contrary....
>
> Ken Sletten
>
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