Brian N. Borg wrote: > > The drives themselves are not any different. The hot swap trays have > the functionality to power the drives down before removal or up after > insertion. Such trays and drives could be used with the md utilities > under Linux to provide striped (raid 0), mirrored (raid 1), or striped > and mirrored arrays. Raid 5 (striped, with parity) isn't supported. > > Although hardware raid is independent of the operating system, they > usually include operating system specific utilities for configuring > and monitoring the arrays. Without these utilities, it is hard, if > not impossible, to format a new array, replace a failed drive, etc. >
I heard that someone using DPT RAID card but don't know how they get the driver. Lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
