[CoLoCo] Fw: Re: SATA RAID controller

[TC]

I'm using mdadm for a raid5 with 3 500G usb drives, and have had almost
no problems.

The one problem was when they changed "LUN"s, but it was recoverable
without data loss.

David L. Willson wrote:
>>> Seriously, software RAID is your friend.  Is there a specific reason
>>> you want to go with hardware based RAID?  3ware has been in the
>>> mainline kernel for a long time, and it's the only SATA/IDE RAID
>>> controller I trust.
>>>
>> Mainly I wanted to go hardware RAID because my software RAID isn't working
>> and I don't know how to fix it. I have both drives set up as RAID volumes.
>> fdsik reports them as such. But mirroring isn't working. My mirror drive is
>> empty. I think hardware based RAID would just be simpler to do and more
>> reliable. If I hadn't bothered to check and something happened my whole
>> reason for setting up RAID would have been for naught.
>>
> 
> Hardware RAID is not management free, or appreciably simpler, even.  Please post the
> commands you used to create your mirror, if they're still in your history.  Or bring it
> to the CLUE Installfest.  Do you have the OS on it's own partition and enough space to
> create a backup?
> 
> I ~meant~ a backup of the supposed mirror, since it will probably be necessary to wipe
> it, in order to recreate it.  Sorry for the lack of clarity.
> 
> David L. Willson
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