Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-11 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 10 February 2006 22:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Most hot swap stuff has the drives in caddys that fit in a mount. The > mount contains power connections and drive connections. the caddy has > cables for the disk data and power that go to a connector on the > caddy. The caddy slides

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-11 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 10 February 2006 20:34, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > They have supported drivers (GPL'd, IIRC) that go back to 2.3.x > kernels. 2.6.16 might include them in mainline, mm-sources has > included them since 2.6.14, at least. I think RHEL4 will include the > drivers in their kernel. > >

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-10 Thread brettholcomb
a lock on the front that cuts off power when unlocked for removal. > > From: Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/02/10 Fri PM 02:50:24 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid > > First of all, thanks for you

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-10 Thread Jarry
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > But how do you actually hot-swap the drives? Does the disk that is going > to be removed have to be somehow powered off (eg, via some switch in the > backplane or in the enclosure) before? I think hot-swap is supported by sata itself (I mean hardware side), similar as fo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 10 February 2006 12:39, Rick van Hattem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid': > On Friday 10 February 2006 10:14, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > So, I'm finally going to buy a 3ware 9550sx SATA Raid board. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-10 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
First of all, thanks for your answer. On Friday 10 February 2006 19:39, Rick van Hattem wrote: > You are correct, you are able to hot-swap the drives without rebooting > or anything. > > I have a 3ware 7506-12 card and I'm able to hot-swap drives aswell, > the drivers work very good and the manag

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-10 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Friday 10 February 2006 10:14, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > So, I'm finally going to buy a 3ware 9550sx SATA Raid board. > > From what I've read, it is well supported by linux and it should do true > hardware raid (ie, the OS sees only one drive). Anyway, I found little > documentation about the so-ca