[Cialug] sata raid

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 10:21 -0500, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 June 2007 10:09, david l goodrich wrote:
> >So what's the story with recovering from a controller failure?  I know
> >software raid can be recovered by configuring it identically on
> > another computer.  Can you just drop in another controller when the
> > first one dies?
> >  --david
> 
> The question is, do you need an *exact* copy of the controller (aka, 
> same model, same revision, same firmware version)? How readily 
> available will that be a couple years down the road?

I believe that with HP/Compaq RAID controllers you are supposed to be
able to migrate volumes between different models of RAID controllers and
things are supposed to "just work".  I've never really tested that
though.

Jeff

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