Well, that's why I was asking. I am using IBM DDRS 39130 U2W-SCSI on a RAID1
for five months now without any problems, so I was just wondering wether I
would run into trouble....
I like them 2
Rgds, Till
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Robert (Drew) Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Gesendet am: Montag, 31. Mai 1999 16:23
> An: Francisco Jose Montilla
> Cc: Till Mommsen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: Re: raid 5 problems in 0.90 (fwd)
>
>
> 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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> > Francisco J. Montilla Systems & Network administrator
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> >
> >
>
