[CentOS] Centos and Software RAID

Mark Schoonover schoon at amgt.com
Sat May 27 17:50:51 UTC 2006


Barry L. Kline <mailto:blkline at attglobal.net> tapped at Friday, May 26, 2006
4:50 PM:

> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 16:56, Barry L. Kline wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Note that unless it has changed recently, SATA drives don't pass
>> errors up to the software raid layer correctly.  If a drive
>> dies it doesn't get kicked out as it should.
> 
> Good point.  The systems on which I use it are either IDE-based or
> SCSI-based.  The SATA machines I have are all 3ware RAID controller
> equipped.
> 
> Barry

	This is what I go with, 3Ware and SATA drives. My company just needs
the raw storage space, and not so much speed. So, I can live with SATA
drives on 3Ware cards, and things just work.

Mark



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