On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 08:07:43PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 01/12/2010 10:43 AM, John Doe wrote: > > On the other hand, here, we have around 30 HP servers. > > Some DL360/380/180 G5/G6 with CentOS 4/5 and, > > in 2 years, only 3 drives failed... That's it; no other problems... > > Drives is hardly the issue - most of them are going to be seagate anyway. > > My main issue with that kit is that the linux drivers are very basic, > lack most management capabilities and fail often with obscure issues. > And, as Peter pointed out already, they are not really exposing a proper > scsi interface, but modeled around a really old ata stack. > HP has new 'hpsa' driver, that is based on the SCSI stack. -- Pasi