Yeah, sorry Theo, I did post it as OT, I value this groups input greatly but point taken.
-Andy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Theo de Raadt Sent: 16 September 2006 20:59 To: Andrew Smith Cc: 'OpenBSD-misc list' Subject: Re: OT: Adaptec SATA Raid controllers You really have come to the wrong mailing list. This is a mailing list about OpenBSD. It is not a mailing list about SATA or SATA reliability. Nor is not a mailing list setup to assist you in fulfilling your contracts. It is about OpenBSD (which you do not mention), and which does not support those controllers you mention. Please stay on topic. > I have just taken a contract at a company for to help with driving some > procedure into their IT services to meet their growth demands. As an aside I > have picked up on discussions about number of failures of SATA RAID > subsystems using Adaptec 2610SA controllers provided by HP (running under > various OS). > > > > They actually seem to be getting drives failing at an alarming rate and are > actually getting occasional file system corruptions when this happens > (typically on RAID 5 configurations). > > > > I have never encountered hot swap on SATA before and am wondering if anybody > knows SATA well and can provide some info about SATA reliability in hot plug > environments. > > > > -Andy
