> > I've got a couple of the LSI 300-8X SATA cards. They certainly perform > > wonderfully and at a good pricepoint. > > > > I had run into a problem on SMP AMD64 with ccb timeouts locking up the > > box, which is doing some heavy NFS and DB. Upgrading the firmware > > seems to have cleared that up (knock on wood). > > I've heard nothing but good about these cards, but I have heard > hardly anything about recovery and rebuild. I'm assuming you need > to shut down, plug in the new drive, and go...
Wrong. When you set the machine up (or using bioctl) you label a drive as a hot spare. When a failure happens, it automatically takes that drive over and does a rebuild. Shut down? You don't get it. We wrote all this code because we were tired of shutting down and doing the repairs in the BIOS. > How quick is the > rebuild (subject to drive size of course)? The card does it, so who cares.
