Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-11 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 10 February 2006 20:34, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: They have supported drivers (GPL'd, IIRC) that go back to 2.3.x kernels. 2.6.16 might include them in mainline, mm-sources has included them since 2.6.14, at least. I think RHEL4 will include the drivers in their kernel. They

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-11 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 10 February 2006 22:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most hot swap stuff has the drives in caddys that fit in a mount. The mount contains power connections and drive connections. the caddy has cables for the disk data and power that go to a connector on the caddy. The caddy slides

[gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-10 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
So, I'm finally going to buy a 3ware 9550sx SATA Raid board. From what I've read, it is well supported by linux and it should do true hardware raid (ie, the OS sees only one drive). Anyway, I found little documentation about the so-called hot-swap feature. As I understand it, that means one

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-10 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Friday 10 February 2006 10:14, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: So, I'm finally going to buy a 3ware 9550sx SATA Raid board. From what I've read, it is well supported by linux and it should do true hardware raid (ie, the OS sees only one drive). Anyway, I found little documentation about the so-called

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-10 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
First of all, thanks for your answer. On Friday 10 February 2006 19:39, Rick van Hattem wrote: You are correct, you are able to hot-swap the drives without rebooting or anything. I have a 3ware 7506-12 card and I'm able to hot-swap drives aswell, the drivers work very good and the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 10 February 2006 12:39, Rick van Hattem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid': On Friday 10 February 2006 10:14, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: So, I'm finally going to buy a 3ware 9550sx SATA Raid board. From what I've read, it is well supported by linux

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-10 Thread Jarry
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: But how do you actually hot-swap the drives? Does the disk that is going to be removed have to be somehow powered off (eg, via some switch in the backplane or in the enclosure) before? I think hot-swap is supported by sata itself (I mean hardware side), similar as for

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-10 Thread brettholcomb
a lock on the front that cuts off power when unlocked for removal. From: Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/02/10 Fri PM 02:50:24 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid First of all, thanks for your answer. On Friday 10 February