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On Sunday 05 December 2004 16:54, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > Drivers have also been in all stock kernels for *years*. |
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> > Never had to look to Promise for drivers for their cards, so don't know |
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> > if they have written their own. |
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> that is nice to know. hm but their raid-drivers are closed, aren't they? |
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Screw their RAID stuff. |
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I'd be very suprised if it isn't some half-assed hardware/software |
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winmodem-esq setup anyway. |
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Full software RAID is a perfectly good, if not better, solution. We do crummy |
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twin IDE "server appliances" here, which software RAID1 all partitions, |
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even /boot (with a little grub trickery if hda fails it'll still boot). |
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Mike Williams |