As long as the bootloader exists on both disks, and boot order are including 
both disks, there aren't any problems even booting with a failured disk.
But since SATA is (often) Hot Plug, you could change the failed disk while 
running.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Eissler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Some more hardware and E1 questions


IMHO hardware RAID trumps software RAID. In order to use the latter 
your system must still be operational to some extent.

-mark

On Jan 24, 2005, at 11:10 PM, Gary wrote:

> better solution rather than have a machine with raid is to investigate
> ISCSI :-)
>
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:40:10 +0100, Daniel Nystr"m wrote:
>
>> I will be using Debian, and as long as the Linux Kernel supports the 
>> SATA controller, the rest shouldn't be any problems.
>> If it's SATA RAID, I probably will use ordinary Linux software RAID, 
>> since it's more powerful than the simple one in the controller.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Leo Ann Boon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
>> <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 6:13 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Some more hardware and E1 questions
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Daniel Nystr"m wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi again folks! ;)
>>>>
>>>> As before, I will transform one E1 30 Channel PRI into 30 FXS 
>>>> channels using Adit 600.
>>>>
>>>> Now I'm into choosing server platform. And the two opponents are:
>>>> * Dell PowerEdge 750 w/ SCSI RAID (or even SATA RAID1)
>>>> * FujistuSiemens PRIMERGY RX100 S2 (SATA RAID1)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> If you're planning to use SATA RAID on PE750, make sure your Linux
>>> distro supports. Your best bet - use Redhat Enterprise Linux or one 
>>> of
>>> it derivatives. I'm using Centos 3, it autodetects the RAID whilst
>>> Mandrake 10 failed.
>>>
>>>> As I've seen people having problem with HP server, I havn't looked 
>>>> at it at all.
>>>>
>>>> What experience do you have with the alternatives above? Which 
>>>> would you recommend?
>>>>
>>>> And another question at the same time; what's really E1?
>>>> How is E1 devices connected? Seems like regular Cat5 cables, but it 
>>>> problably ian't?
>>>> If anyone's using Adit 600, did they send all cables required for 
>>>> connecting to the FXS channels? Seems like a very unique "plug" on 
>>>> the side of Adit.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> BR
>>>> Daniel Nystr"m
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