[aclug-L] Re: ISO hardware and chairs

[Greg House <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote:

> | You might go up to trailing edge. They have tons of ~200 MB SCSI HDs for
> | $2 each. (You may want to figure out RAIDs)
> | 
> | Note:This is what RAID(Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) was designed
> | for.
> | 
> | James L

> Hello,
> 
> umm... isn't a plain vanilla scsi controller different than a scsi RAID 
> controller? 

I presume he was talking about using a standard SCSI controller and Linux's
software RAID.

> Suppose i have 3 scsi disks and a pci scsi controller. Now
> would  I still be >able to configure a RAID5?  

Yeah, software RAID... Does Linux offer RAID5, or is it just RAID0 & 1?


> NOTE: Does anybody know of a good site that talks about hardware
> and software RAID on Linux platform?

There is a website I saw once on the topic of using Linux in an enterprise 
(large shop) which had some of that sort of information. I don't remember the 
URL right now though, but you might be able to find it with those as keywords.

Greg

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