On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 16:48 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya > > On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Joao Clemente wrote: > [snip] > problem with raid1 ( aka mirror ) > - if one disk goes bad, the other disk will copy that bad info > onto the good disk .... the whole point of mirror, both disk > is identical I've been using h/w RAID for 10 years, in everything from 60GB (using scads of 4GB devices) to 15TB SANs using 147GB devices, and have *never* *ever* seen what you suggest. I would, literally, fall over dead if I ever saw that happening. [snip] > > So, what's SCA? None of these controllers says SCA... > > sca is the silly removable connector on the disk and in the chassis to > allow oyu to remove the disk A truly uninformed statement, by someone who must not have ever needed to pull a drive out of a running system. SCA is a great and useful idea, and I wish there was something similar for internal IDE drives. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B Tatoo in haste, regret in leisure.
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