Re: Hard Vs. Soft raid?

1999-10-30 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, DarkMoon wrote: Hi, > I was wondering what would be a good hardware raid controller for use > with RH 6.1? I'm looking at the Mylex extreme Raid. Is a hardware I personally (on HW raid) prefer ICP Vortex ones, search the list archives for a more detailed e

Re: Hard Vs. Soft raid?

1999-10-28 Thread G.W. Wettstein
On Oct 28, 2:15am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: } Subject: Hard Vs. Soft raid? > HI, Good day. > I was wondering what would be a good hardware raid controller for use > with RH 6.1? I'm looking at the Mylex extreme Raid. Is a hardware > raid controller worth the money? Is it easier to set up, mo

RE: Hard Vs. Soft raid?

1999-10-28 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
I've done both. The main benefit of hardware RAID is that operations is simplified. Booting from HW RAID is much less cantankerous than booting from SW RAID, simply because the BIOS does it all. Linux SW RAID is still a bitch to set up properly and I'm not sure that all of the bugs are smushed yet

Re: Hard Vs. Soft raid?

1999-10-28 Thread Kent Nilsen
Hello! I've got a Mylex DAC960 which was very easy to set up, except it's extremely sensitive to termination and cable lengths. I also had to disable tagged command queuing (else it marked my drives as offline). After getting the disks in place, setting up the raid part was peanuts. I've had n