Osma Ahvenlampi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 15 June 1999 09:32:
>Four disks out of six carrying data. Not too bad, I think, if you're
>aiming for data security.
Yes, if only I could afford it :-(
>Linux supports any combination you can think of, since you can stack
>md's on top of each othe
Carlos Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >6 disks, 3 controllers, RAID-0 + RAID-5 (67%)
> ^^^ ^^^
> Yes, that's what I call not so affordable :-(
Four disks out of six carrying data. Not too bad, I think, if you're
aiming for data security.
> Anyway,
Bruno Prior ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 14 June 1999 16:49:
>> I don't see an affordable solution to this. One can always use a
>> single controller, but with decent disks it'll be saturated. And
>> having a single disk per controller will run out of slots.
>
>For resilience to controller fa
> I don't see an affordable solution to this. One can always use a
> single controller, but with decent disks it'll be saturated. And
> having a single disk per controller will run out of slots.
For resilience to controller failure, theoretically:
2 disks, 2 controllers, RAID-1 (50% of disk capa
Norton AntiVirus found the "Happy99.Worm" virus in the attachment
"Happy99.exe".
The file was Quarantined.
Sender of the infected attachment: Gabor Tjong A Hung
Subject of the message: Re: controller failure hosed raid5 array :-(
-Original Message-
From: Gabor
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Gabor Tjong A Hung wrote:
> begin 644 Happy99.exe
[ virus deleted ]
OH DEAR!! Guess who's using a Windows 95 system to read his e-mail.
LOL!
Cheers,
Alex
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It was noticed in this list a few days ago that a SCSI controller
failure could blow up a raid array if there's more than one disk
connected to it. Well, it got me :-( :-( Here's the type of problem:
kernel: (scsi2:0:0:0) Parity error during Message-In phase.
kernel: scsi : aborting command due
