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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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