On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Jakob �stergaard wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, Brian Pomerantz wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:44:32AM +0100, Jakob �stergaard wrote:
> > > >
> > > If there isn't hot-swap RAID 5 with auto rebuild, it will never
> > > happen.
> >
> > It would be nice if a program such as ASCI could put the resources needed
> > into Linux to actually get decent hot swap capability... Let's see what
> > happens.
>
> We're talking about something more automatic than "echo
> scsi-add-single-device [...]", I surmise, from this? It works fine with me
> and RAID1, and I don't think it would be hard to put up a framework for
> making it better. Of course, you need to prepare the other disk for the
> RAID, but I usually keep some pre-mkraided around handy.
>
For what i have experienced, the usefulness of "echo
scsi-add-single-device [...]" is heavily dependant on the
scsi driver beneath the common scsi stuff. With aic7xxx i was
able to succeed partially with failed/nonexisting SCSI negotiations
and thus very hard performance degration.
What controller did you use ?
-- Mika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
