Basically the RAID-5 device is laid out differently in the symmetrix on 4 or 8 volumes depending on config 3+1 or 7+1, whereas the 2 way mirror is simply contigious space on 2 seperate drives, there can be no direct conversion between the 2 types.
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you will not be able to convert from 2-way-mirror to RAID-5, See knowledgebase article emc155688.
http://csgateway.emc.com/primus.asp?id=emc155688
Basically the RAID-5 device is laid out differently in the symmetrix on 4 or 8 volumes depending on config 3+1 or 7+1, whereas the 2 way mirror is simply contigious space on 2 seperate drives, there can be no direct conversion between the 2 types.
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