Re: RAID and OpenBSD

["Dr. Evil" <drevil@sidereal.kz>]

> >OpenBSD seems to work very well with the ICP-Vortex cards.  These
> >cards are expensive, but have some fantastic performance features.
> 
> And they're also very nice and easy to set up, and the whole thing has a 
> feeling of quality about it that you don't see that often.

Right.  They feel like professional-quality stuff that you might
actually want to use on a server in a machineroom.

> Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but is there any way you can tell 
> remotely whether your discs have failed or not?

Not that I know of.  This is certainly a flaw in in the system.  I
don't know what it would take to get that capability.  I think that
there is an audible alarm when they fail, so anyone near it would
notice, but obviously, it would be much better for the computer to
send a page, for instance.