On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 17:22, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On 5 May 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 11:31, scott.marlowe wrote:
> > > On 3 May 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 13:53, Chad Thompson wrote:
[snip]
> > What controller do you use for IDE hot-swapping and auto-rebuild?
> > 3Ware?
>
> Linux, and I don't do hot swapping with IDE, just hot rebuild from a
> spare drive. My servers are running SCSI, by the way, only the
> workstations are running IDE. With the saved cost of a decent RAID
> controller (good SCSI controllers are still well over $500 most the time)
> I can afford enough hot spares to never have to worry about changing one
> out during the day.
Ah, I guess that drives go out infrequently enough that shutting
it down at night for a swap-out isn't all that onerous...
What controller model do you use?
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