John writes:
     >I am about to switch from 5, 2GB individual disks to disk array's. I
     >have a HPC2300WD Model 20 with 10, 2GB disks. At first I was going to
     >configure them as 2, RAID-5's of 5 disks each for 2 logical disks of
     >8GB each. Then I realized that I can't use more than 4GB for a system
     >disk.  And even so the system tends not to put files on the system
     >disk, so I would end up with one disk serving most of the
     >applications. I could go with 3 array's of 3 disks each (4GB,4GB,4GB)
     >leaving one spare, or get 2 more disks and have 4 array's of 3 disks
     >each. What disk configuration would you suggest?

     As far as I know, it is still true that the boot disk cannot be
     greater than 4GB, but possibly more important for your configuration
     planning is that Ldev 1 must be in a RAID1 setup, not RAID5.  HP will
     only support RAID1 for Ldev 1.

     Jon Broz
     HP Cleveland

     "My opinions/comments...not HP's"