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RE: Hardware raid
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dombrofsky Klaus)
Wed May 6 01:36:52 1998
From: Dombrofsky Klaus <Klaus.Dombrofsky@Brueckner.de>
To: Mailingliste Linux-Scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 07:18:29 +0200
> Hi,
> i had this question too, 2 years ago.
> I tried internal Raidadapters ( DPT 3334UW ) and it worked fine, but
> i couldn't do anything with this adapter while
> linux is running because theres no storagemanager under linux, so i
> always had to boot dos and start the manager.
> Under linux dpt is running fine and stabile and when a drive fails
> it is rebuilding on the hotspare-drive -> OK, BUT
> to remove and replace the drive you have to run the storagemanager
> and this one is under dos, win95, winnt, sco-unix, netware ... no
> linux.
> From mailinglists heard that all internal adapters till now work in
> this way.
> So: i cannot use this one.
>
> Since two years, we are now using an external raidcabinet (
> infortrend-raidcontroller )
> abd this one is plugged to the scsi-adapter. It is also working fine,
> but it has an serial
> port, where you can maintain the running raidsystem, start rebuilds on
> failed drives,
> add new drives and so on. And you can remove a drive without stopping
> the raid
> and linux.
> My advice is. Use extaernal raid-cabinets.
>
> Hope it helps
>
> Klaus-Peter Dombrofsky
>
> KDombrofsky@t-online.de
> Klaus.Dombrofsky@chiemgau.baynet.de
> Klaus.Dombrofsky@Brueckner.de
>
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>
> I intend to buy a hardware raid system for my linux server.
> Which raid card should I buy, Mylex, DPT etc ?
> Do they support removable hard drives whithout shutting down the
> computer or do I need to buy a storage cabinet ?
>
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