Re: extending RAID5 arrays

1999-07-27 Thread Peter Green
> Hardware raid, the IBM serveraid ips, has tools under linux to add > drives on the fly, Hrm, I wasn't able to find anything on this. URL? > I belive that when I played with the dpt you could add drives, via dos. This is an Alpha-based system. Having to boot into DOS is, ba

Re: extending RAID5 arrays

1999-07-27 Thread Drew Puch
> > I saw the post around May that stated that adding drives to an existing > RAID5 array is still not possible. Is there anyone working on this? Has > there been any progress made whatsoever? We'd really like to be able to do > this (for obvious reasons). > > What good alternatives are there to

extending RAID5 arrays

1999-07-27 Thread Peter Green
I saw the post around May that stated that adding drives to an existing RAID5 array is still not possible. Is there anyone working on this? Has there been any progress made whatsoever? We'd really like to be able to do this (for obvious reasons). What good alternatives are there to RAID5, if this