[Cialug] sata raid

[Dave Weis]

Josh More <morej at alliancetechnologies.net> said:
> If a controller dies, you have to drop in a similar, if not identical,
> controller and configure it properly.
> 
> With software RAID, you can use anything.  Also, I like the software
> RAID ties directly in with the kernel RAID monitoring tools without
> needing any special drivers.  Granted, that could just be my adaptec
> experience talking, but I find that software RAID works better for me. 
> When I was trying hardware RAID, I got the following interesting
> problems.

Depending on how you installed your boot loader and how your bios works,
losing the first drive of a mirror can make your machine unbootable because
lilo/grub isn't installed on the second drive also.

dave

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