[CentOS] Re: software raid

[Jeff Lasman]

On Tuesday 03 April 2007 08:14 am, Scott Silva wrote:

> It seems unusual to have hotswap cages and not have a hotswap capable
> controller.

Which is why I want to do some testing.

> I think SAS is hot-swappable, but I really don't think 
> IDE or SATA is, and SCSI might be if it is newer.

Definitely SATA.  Definitely hotswap.

http://www.serversdirect.com/config.asp?config_id=SDR-5015M-T+B

We've been using this configuration for some time; some of the details 
may have changed.

According to linuxmafia:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#intel-ich7

It's fake RAID and we've always set it up as software RAID.

(Maybe we shouldn't be?)

Jeff
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