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Re: Re[2]: Mylex DAC960
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri Dec 6 17:10:31 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-scsi@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: 6 Dec 1996 21:03:45 -0000
In article <9611058498.AA849825366@smtp.ndcwireless.com>,
<dbeitler@ndcwireless.com> wrote:
> My experience with the DAC960 in use with Novell woulc cause me to not
> want to put one on a Linux box, too much trouble. In the Novell
> environment, you have to run Mylex provided software to configure the
> drives, and while it works pretty well, reconfiguring after a failed
Having used a Mylex based array on a Digital Alpha OSF box with the right
tools I can say they were quite nice. You did have to fight the bugs in
the Motif interface but the ability to click on a drive and tell it to
do something was nice and all the raid recovery without a reboot - good
job considering the way the machine in question ate disks.
Alan
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