[Gllug] RAID Partitions

[Amias Channer]

On Fri, 7 May 2004 13:47:14 +0100
"Daniel P. Berrange" <dan at berrange.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 01:30:34PM +0100, Amias Channer wrote:
> > Would i be right in thinking that if one of the drives from a mirror is pulled it won't be 
> > properly readable by anything else but the same type of controller due to a proprietary format ?
> 
> Yep. Not only that, but make sure its the exact same version of the
> controlller with the exact same firmware. I know of sysadmins who've
> been burnt by incompatabilities across firmware upgrades :-(

Lorks , i don't think i'll be going anywhere near one of those then.
Software raid on a dual channel SCSI controller for me then.

Thanks to you and to all the other 2p donors.

Toodle-pip
Amias
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