Good afternoon all. This is a quasi-on and off topic post, and I hope someone can help me out. Here's my setup: Tyan (Tahoe?) MB with dual PPro 200 (on riser cards) and 256 meg RAM, 4 gig and 8 gig IDE HD, DPT PM3754U2 SmartRaid V I2O Ultra2 SCSI controller with 64 meg Cache, 4 9.1 gig Ultra2 drives as a single 26.5 gig RAID 5 array. I'm currently running SuSE 5.3 with kernel 2.0.36. I have yet to upgrade to the 2.2.x kernels since I keep hearing about the file system corruption problems and other issues, and because the 2.0.36 system is working fine (sans an intermittant and recurring message about eth0: too much work at interupt...) so I am hesitant to mess with it. Now I'm needing to add more hard drive space to this system. My thinking is to add an external SCSI rack or two. But then again, I'm looking at the options my DPT card gives me. I'd like to add either the dual Ultra2 bus expansion module or the fiber channel module (the fiber says it will work with any SmartRaid V controller). In addition, I want to add a rack with hot-swap capability. Now comes my questions. Are there any issues with SMP kernels and hot-swap hard drive arrays? What about the fiber option, does anyone have something like this running on their Linux systems? Would the dual Ultra2 bus expansion be a better bet? Thanks, Greg - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
