Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID

2007-02-28 Thread Alan
> > Would you use MD at all, taking in account the disks come from the > > same batch and all? I hear these things about MD/RAID being pointless > > when you use disks from the same brand/type/batch since they most > > likely will break shortly after each other. > > Well, for values of "shortly" i

Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID

2007-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Patrick Ale wrote: On 2/24/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/24/07, Michael-Luke Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One more question regarding this, I am aware its not *really* kernel related but answering this question now will save yourself a lot of bogus emails from me about MD

Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID

2007-02-26 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday February 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2/24/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/24/07, Michael-Luke Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One more question regarding this, I am aware its not *really* kernel > related but answering this question now will save yourself a

Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID

2007-02-26 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/24/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/24/07, Michael-Luke Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One more question regarding this, I am aware its not *really* kernel related but answering this question now will save yourself a lot of bogus emails from me about MD oopses later and al

Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID

2007-02-24 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/24/07, Michael-Luke Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But using 'fakeraid' (i.e. BIOS RAID) together with dmraid is generally discouraged in favour of using the more stable and well supported Linux Software RAID functionality. Michael-Luke I think I actually used dmraid, and the problem I

Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID

2007-02-24 Thread Michael-Luke Jones
But using 'fakeraid' (i.e. BIOS RAID) together with dmraid is generally discouraged in favour of using the more stable and well supported Linux Software RAID functionality. Michael-Luke On 24 Feb 2007, at 15:24, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: use device mapper and dmraid http:/

Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID

2007-02-24 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
use device mapper and dmraid http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/ and please read http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html On Saturday 24 February 2007, Patrick Ale wrote: > Hi, > > Quick question, > > Since I am going to open my server today to do some pata tests (for