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Re: MegaRAID controllers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Lee Green)
Fri Oct 30 09:14:21 1998
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:16:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Eric Lee Green <eric@linux-hw.com>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Bill Carlson wrote:
> 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.
That's why we prefer the ICP-Vortex GDT line of RAID controllers. Still
doesn't auto-rebuild (sigh), but at least you can load up "gdtmon" while
your system is still running and tell it to hot-swap the drive that needs
rebuilding, at which time it'll rebuild in the background while your
system is still online.
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Eric Lee Green eric@linux-hw.com http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric
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