Re: hot-change disk arrays...can I do it on Linux?

[Lawrence Chim <ychim@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au>]

Brian N. Borg wrote:
> 
> The drives themselves are not any different.  The hot swap trays have
> the functionality to power the drives down before removal or up after
> insertion.  Such trays and drives could be used with the md utilities
> under Linux to provide striped (raid 0), mirrored (raid 1), or striped
> and mirrored arrays.  Raid 5 (striped, with parity) isn't supported.
> 
> Although hardware raid is independent of the operating system, they
> usually include operating system specific utilities for configuring
> and monitoring the arrays.  Without these utilities, it is hard, if
> not impossible, to format a new array, replace a failed drive, etc.
> 

I heard that someone using DPT RAID card but don't know how they
get the driver.

Lawrence,


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . 
Trouble?  e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .