Re: 3Ware Escalade 5000 & 6000, opinions?

2000-08-01 Thread Jarkko Kniivilä
n Bene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jarkko Kniivilä" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:51 AM Subject: AW: 3Ware Escalade 5000 & 6000, opinions? > Hi, > > I just wanted to give you an update on the informatione rega

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2000-07-25 Thread Dan Jones
Jarkko Kniivilä wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Dan Hollis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jarkko Kniivilä" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 1:20 AM > Subject: Re: 3Ware Escalade 5000 & 6000, opinions? > &g

AW: 3Ware Escalade 5000 & 6000, opinions?

2000-07-25 Thread Martin Bene
Hi, I just wanted to give you an update on the informatione regarding 3ware escalade controllers: > > So my question is this: are these thing reliable? I mean if I Just got an email from 3ware stating that as of today, new firmware is released and used in newly manufactured boards. The update t

AW: 3Ware Escalade 5000 & 6000, opinions?

2000-07-24 Thread Martin Bene
Hi, > So my question is this: are these thing reliable? I mean if I > pull the plug under several occasions, will the Escalade firmware > handle the partial writes to the stripes and mirrors, ie. will the > block device be always consistent? My reason to question this arises > from criticism voic

Re: 3Ware Escalade 5000 & 6000, opinions?

2000-07-19 Thread Jarkko Kniivilä
- Original Message - From: "Dan Hollis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jarkko Kniivilä" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 1:20 AM Subject: Re: 3Ware Escalade 5000 & 6000, opinions? > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-1] Jarkko Kniivilä wrote

3Ware Escalade 5000 & 6000, opinions?

2000-07-19 Thread Jarkko Kniivilä
Hi Raiders, I'm considering to purchase a 3Ware Escalade controller for a new server of ours. I'm thinking of Escalade because of the infamous incompatibility between Linux (2.2.x) SW RAID and LVM. And then there's the idea that maybe the sophisticated elevator routines that make SCSI drives so m