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First of all, thanks for your answer. |
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On Friday 10 February 2006 19:39, Rick van Hattem wrote: |
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> You are correct, you are able to hot-swap the drives without rebooting |
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> or anything. |
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> I have a 3ware 7506-12 card and I'm able to hot-swap drives aswell, |
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> the drivers work very good and the management tool allows you to |
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> create/modify/rebuild raid arrays without rebooting. |
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But how do you actually hot-swap the drives? Does the disk that is going |
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to be removed have to be somehow powered off (eg, via some switch in the |
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backplane or in the enclosure) before? (Sorry for the dumb questions, I |
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read a reasonable amount of documents about RAID but actually I never |
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had to deal with it in the real life - until now of course). |
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Is the management tool opensource or is it a binary proprietary program? |
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> But...... Areca cards are a lot faster for the serial ata stuff, |
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> altough I'm not sure about there linux driver support, it's worth to |
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> take a look at there stuff :) |
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Well, areca is in fact the other brand I was interested in (together with |
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LSI)...I'm not sure, but they seem to use marvell chipset; there is |
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support for it in the kernel, although the driver is still experimental |
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(but they mantain a separate opensource driver). Don't know about their |
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management tools (infos are welcome). |
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