> The hardware controller you mention. Does that support Ubuntu? I > wouldn't mind buying a hardware RAID card as long as it came with some > kind of monitoring application (so I could tell remotely if the RAID > fell over) and it managed to come in at the sub 100 quid price... >
In my experience, though mostly with IBM servers... the hardware controllers are rock solid. I'm running about 10-15 IBM servers and 2 HP, 1 of the IBMs is quite old and doesn't have a hardware controller, so I installed 6.06.1 with mdadm... about a month or two later, one of the hard drives went down in a similar manner to what you explained. The other has been working fine ever since, for about a year now. (It's not an important server so never bothered fixing it). Don't know if that means anything... -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
