Just my $0.02. I have been using IBM SCSI drives in linux software raids
for the past year. I haven't seen any problems, and I think they are my
favorite drives.
But that might just be my luck. I am running them in 3 or 4 different
raid arrays.
--Drew
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Francisco Jose Montilla wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Till Mommsen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > > I guess this is surely due to disks/controller (won't you be using
> > > IBM disks?) but certainly, you had luck in being able to build a raid with
> > > that config. Guess that the spare-disk wrong option went unadverted to the
> > > *picky* raid config file parser...
> >
> > What is wrong with IBM Disks and Linux SW RAID?
>
> Nothing concrete, but I've seen lots of headaches with those
> drives in general. Gerard Roudier (ncr53c8xx driver) pointed out recently
> that these drives doesn't like the way some controllers arbitrate the
> SCSI bus...
>
> greetings,
>
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