raid controller recommendation

[Nathan Bryant]

Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:

>Nathan Bryant wrote:
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>>matter of opinion. mylex's controllers are very easy to set up. also hot
>>swappable which i believe software raid is not.
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>hot-swap is a SCSI HBA+disk feature, and Linux_soft_raid supports hot-swap.
>Mylex is out of circulation, it was bought by LSI. MegaRAID boards are
>the substitute.
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not every scsi. you need proper signal relection control and so on, 
needs a proper hotswap chassis. without, it may work, but you're not 
guaranteed to avoid signal corruption. typically you get a hotswap 
chassis with a hardware controller, so...

glad to hear that software supports this, though. i'm out of date on 
this stuff.
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