On Thursday 14 January 2010, John R Pierce wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: > > My main issue with that kit is that the linux drivers are very basic, > > lack most management capabilities and fail often with obscure issues. We certainly don't see a high frequency of obscure-cciss-issues. But since no place and/or work-load is the same I guess this difference isn't too unexpected. > > And, as Peter pointed out already, they are not really exposing a proper > > scsi interface, but modeled around a really old ata stack. > > One thing HP has attempted to do with all their smartarray cards is > maintain RAID volume set compatability, so you can move a raid set from > a failed server to another raid controller that has the same interface > even if its a different controller.. This is far from always true, for example, raid6 sets are incompatible between quite similar controllers according to HP documentation. /Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100115/4d706868/attachment-0005.sig>