Re: RAID and OpenBSD

[Nicholas Janzen <nj@third-net.com>]

I also have had really good expirences with dell 2400 servers  they come
with a bult in perc chipset. I use them in the server room.

On 2 May 2001, Dr. Evil wrote:

> > >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.