Nigel kendrick <support-lists at petdoctors.co.uk> wrote: > Bryan wants a bit more insight: I'm a demanding SOB, aren't I? ;-> > System was running Centos 3 and had 3 PATA drives - one > containing root, boot, swap and then a mirrored pair for our > data ... The mirrored pair were running off a PCI controller > with an ITE 8212 chipset which was a real pain in in the ass > to get going ... Yep, I think I remember a discussion on that chip -- a really low-cost, but true RAID-1 hardware logic chip with just enough SRAM, ~32KiB, to store 1 block transfer. > Anyway, along comes Mr Electrical Inspection and - allegedly - > leaves the server well alone ... Yeah, I know how that goes. Long ago I learned to put in 12000-25000VA units in my areas after someone called out electrical one day. I've never used the 8212, so I don't know how it is for RAID-1. I really avoid anything but 3Ware, mainly because of my past experiences/trust. But that's just me. I keep putting off testing a NetCell SR5000, largely because it has virtually no user-space support in Linux. > That's it - all that's left to do it mirror the current > (one) drive as mentioned in my original email. > Hope that's all clear. Yep, thanx for reminding me where you were coming from. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)