Darren New wrote:
> Tom Austin wrote:
>> I don't mind software RAID, but I've found they are a bit more touchy 
>> when it comes to OS working smoothly with them (windows and linux).
> 
> One advantage of a software RAID is that your OS will tell you when it 
> breaks. I never figured out, for example, how to get the Dell hardware 
> raid to actually tell me (under Linux) when one of the drives had 
> failed. Hence, it wasn't a whole lot of use, and I opened it up and used 
> the Linux software RAID instead.
> 

Mine tells me during boot-up. Usually it just flashes the RAID Stats for 
one or two seconds (how many HDs were detected and in which kind of 
RAID), leaving me little time to hit Ctrl+A to enter the setup, but when 
a harddrive is faulty, or it finds the RAID to be compromised (happened 
once during a system crash, data didn't arrive at both HDs), it'll wait 
longer, something between 5 and 10 seconds, enough to realize it's not 
functional.

Since it didn't occur in any other manner to me (HD didn't switch back 
on during boot, or the system crash), I wouldn't know if it could tell 
me something of that sort WHILE the system is running.

Regards,
Tim

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aka "Tim Nikias"
Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>

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