- have heard someone say that running two striped ide drives is 2x slower than
normal ide access... donno...
( I use striped 2striped 8Gb ide drives for incremental backups of each 64Gb
main servers )
2x slower = both on same ide; 2x faster = each on different ide
Francisco Jose Montilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Doesn't SCSI controllers use parity? (Although you have to
enable it, of course)
Yes. However some of them do not use ``parity'' on the PCI bus, or in
their internal memory. This has happened to me (at a very stressing
case, with a bad
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Andy Poling wrote:
I agree completely with the first statement. But the second sounds
somewhat odd to me. I can hotadd or hotremove a disk on linux with sw RAID
and a non-hot swappable capable controller, maybe this is another feature
of sw RAID over hw RAID?
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Hardware Stuff wrote:
Grub can read from any normal FAT,
I'm playing this weekend with v2.2.6 the new patches on a spare server
trying to get
boot-raid working or to see how far off it is.
Anyway, I noticed that the current code doesn't seems to allow a 'global hot
spare' disk
for the raid arrays. On my test system here I have 3 arrays (raid 1 raid
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Michael wrote:
Yep, ASUS is really stable
But the bios upgrade should be a standard part of bring up every
system no matter whose it is. If you check the ASUS site you will see
that they also have bios upgrades available for all their boards. It's
pretty easy
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Steve Costaras wrote:
I'm playing this weekend with v2.2.6 the new patches on a spare server
trying to get boot-raid working or to see how far off it is.
Anyway, I noticed that the current code doesn't seems to allow a 'global
hot spare' disk for the raid arrays.
Well, still doing some testing here w/ boot raid and have come up with some
more
observations misc that I thought to send to the list.
In one instance I was playing with two different machines and found a hairy
problem
when moving arrays around with the same name. Ie:
- Need to add to raid
Greetings,
Is there an API to inquire the controller about status.
TIA
Best - Andy
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