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Re: MegaRAID controllers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Carlson)
Wed Oct 28 11:03:38 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:03:14 -0600 (CST)
From: Bill Carlson <wcarlson@kinzemfg.com>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9810261107000.19910-100000@jaymc.goshen.edu>
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On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Jay Christner wrote:
> If we're unable to find any, we'd probably get a standard dual PII of
> somesort and an external DPT raid box with a DPT PCI controller. Does
> anybody have any good or bad experience with these (which seem to be
> supported under Linux, there's a HOW-TO for them.)
> Thanks for any info.
> -jay
>
I'm setting up a DPT RAID controller for a Novell box, I am at this point
very unimpressed with their product. If you choose to go with them at some
point, make sure you buy their RAID cabinet, the controller is unable to
auto-rebuild an array if the drives are not in a DPT cabinet.
Bill Carlson | Opinions expressed are my own
KINZE Manufacturing, Inc. | not my employer's.
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