I thought that was what the flashing LEDs on the front of the server's HDs were for (besides showing activity). Some I have seen also have an LED near the power button to indicate HD problems.
I guess if you are building your own boxen and not using enterprise grade servers, this is not the case. Thanks, Steve Totaro C F wrote: > While hardware RAID tend to be more reliable, it is not always > possible to properly monitor hardware raid in a linux system, unless > you write your own code. > Consider this: > ~# cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] > md0 : active raid1 sdb2[2](F) sda2[1] > 76139968 blocks [2/1] [_U] > > unused devices: <none> > > The above is from an active system that one hdd failed. It would take > way longer to find such a thing on a hardware raid. Unless it came > with a program that emails me notification on such a failure. > > On 8/20/07, Vidura Senadeera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> I would like to get community's feedback with regard to RAID1 ( Software or >> Hardware) implementations with asterisk. >> >> This is my setup >> >> Motherboard with SATA RAID1 support >> CENT OS 4.4 >> Asterisk 1.2.19 >> Libpri/zaptel latest release >> 2.8 Ghz Intel processor >> 2 80 GB SATA Hard disks >> 256 MB RAM >> digium PRI/E1 card >> >> Following are the concerns I am having >> >> I'm planing to put this asterisk server in production enviorment which is >> having E1 connection to the asterisk server, approximately >> 20 con-current calls, Music on hold, voice mail boxes. >> >> 1. If I use Software RAID, what would be the impact to my deployment? ( >> problems that I have to face with regard to the call flow ) >> 2. If I use Hardware based RAID 1, what would be the impact to the system? >> 3. According to your practical experiance what is the ideal solution among >> both options? >> >> I will be highly appreciate your feedback on this regard. >> >> >> -- >> Thanks & Regards, >> Vidura Senadeera, >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
