Dell PE2950 with MD3000 / MD1000 Storage

[Tom Brown]

>
> Thanks for your prompt reply. But can you please send me some detailed 
> explanation of using MD1000 in split mode. I am not sure what you ment 
> by that. And in split mode can I have single volume of 18 SAS disk? 
> And how much it can grow? I think it should go upto 64TB if PERC 5/E 
> is 64bit LBA.
>  
split mode is having each 'side' of the enclosure on a seperate channel 
- This would mean you'd have 2 volumes of 9 disks each. I see no reason 
why you could not glue these together under the OS but it cant be done 
in hardware as far as i am aware.