: Re: Adaptec 2940 U2W + Raid - STABLE???
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 05:08:25PM +0100, Thomas Kotzian wrote:
There was a little bit of discussion about the stability of the adaptec
2940U2W under heavy load. (like under raid).
I have an SMP box with nine IBM 36.5GB drives across two 2940U2W
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 05:08:25PM +0100, Thomas Kotzian wrote:
There was a little bit of discussion about the stability of the adaptec
2940U2W under heavy load. (like under raid).
I have an SMP box with nine IBM 36.5GB drives across two 2940U2W in RAID-5.
It had a lot of trouble for a while
There was a little bit of discussion about the stability of the adaptec
2940U2W under heavy load. (like under raid).
Are these controllers now stable??? - can someone confirm the stability of
the drivers??? - does someone use these controller with raid under heavy
load???
Thanks!
Thomas
Hi,
There was a little bit of discussion about the stability of the adaptec
2940U2W under heavy load. (like under raid).
Are these controllers now stable??? - can someone confirm the stability of
the drivers??? - does someone use these controller with raid under heavy
load???
I use it with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For more direct results, I've got a raid 1 on my web server, a raid 0
in test (stupid jedi mind trick - what happens with a 2gig and 200mb
stripe set), and I hope to try raid 5 real soon now.
I'm using software RAID5 on our IMAP server mailstore cluster: 6 nodes
Hardware raid is most likely easier, and therefore better for a quick solution. Also
easier to boot from.
I don´t have any experience with hardware raid however.
For stability there is most likely no difference.
Hot swap may pose some hardware-related difficulties with software raid.
The raid
From the accounts I have observed, it appears questionable that Raid
(software) for Linux is ready for serious use. Indeed, the product
support tech at RedHat inferred this also. I am about to install a Linux
server to a client, and the question I have is: Will the installation of
Raid be a
Well, its crowded at least :)
Seriously, I know and respect the redhat people (ought to, used to work
there). They would not have gone anywhere near the raid code if it was
gonna kill reliability in 6.1.
For more direct results, I've got a raid 1 on my web server, a raid 0
in test (stupid jedi
