Re: RAID-5 of 4x IBM IC35L073UCDY10 incompatible with SEAGATE ST373207LC

From: Kasper Dupont (kasperd_at_daimi.au.dk)
Date: 05/04/05 

Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 15:03:13 +0200

Victor Matare wrote:
>
> It even leaves a "tolerance gap" of about 10 MB of unused
> space at the end of the disks to ensure that drives with a slightly
> smaller capacity can still be added to the array.

But 10MB is not nearly enough. I have seen a difference
of about 3.6GB between two drives both sold as 160GB. 

-- 
Kasper Dupont -- der bruger for meget tid pĺ usenet.
Note to self: Don't try to allocate 256000 pages
with GFP_KERNEL on x86.

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