Hello Gregory , I on the other hand have not had my systems (yes plural) use that much CPU for during an rebuild . I'd check & look at the sysctl's for rebuild cpu % . Also I have had very minor troubles with hw-raid devices (lately, knock on wood ;-) . I had my first dac960 array up and running in 6 hours and that included remanufacturing the compaq 1500r so I could run 68 pin cables to the drive in their bays . ;-) Twyl , JimL ps: When are you guy's going to REALLY start advertising those headless cards of yours ? On 19 Feb 2002, Gregory Leblanc wrote: > On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 10:56, Chris Mauritz wrote: > > However, it is not really that simple, especially when you lose a > > disk or if you have to upgrade your kernel or if you want to run > > a recent vintage kernel, etc. A hardware controller is substantially > > more easy to setup and manage. If you have the time to spend or as > > much knowledge of the subject as Jakob, then the software RAID > > implementation can yield very good results too. > > Actually, no... A very competent friend was replacing a machine > recently. For the new machine, he purchased a hardware RAID controller > (I forget which one), "in order to simplify things". He spent about 10 > hours trying to make it work, finally gave up, and used software RAID, > and had the system going 45 minutes later. While there are good > arguments for using hardware RAID, I don't believe that simplicity is > one of them. (Speed, however, can be. Stupid raid5d takes up about 25% > of my processors, but only when the system is under load, bleah). > Greg > > -- > Portland, Oregon, USA. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
