Re: Areca SATA cards

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

Am 2006-03-16 09:11:09, schrieb Ronny Adsetts:
> Michael Loftis said at 15/03/2006 22:45:
> > 
> > OCE?  Not familiar with that term....I'm going to guess you mean Online
> > Configuration or something, the 3Ware controllers are not.  You can
> 
> Online Capacity Expansion or adding drives to already defined arrays to
> increase capacity.
> 
> The 3ware cards will do this AFAIK, as will the Areca ones, but I'm not
> sure how the underlying driver and OS handles it having never tried it.
> My advice would be to try it before you put the machine in to operation
> (like I keep meaning to do ;-)

I have two Machinees with each two 3w9500S-12
and the have OCE, but how does this work?

I have HotSwap Racks for 24 HDD's but can Linux
handel this?

I do not want to kick my FileServer and my
DatabaseServer out of its Linux-Live!

Adding a new Raid-5 set of e.g. 3 or more disks
is no problem, but expanding an allready created
partition in a Raid-5 ?

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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