AW: IBM xSeries 206 SATA HOSTRAID doesn't work with FC3

[John Summerfield]

On Friday 19 November 2004 20:02, Marco Fischer wrote:
> That is not what I wanted to hear. Does it mean that IBM is selling the
> perfect illusion of a hardware RAID? I think it's marketing...
>
> And I like RHEL, but only for commercial usage. I run a cluster of two
> Oracle databases with shared storage on RHEL 2.1 Update 2. And they run and
> run and run...
> But for this server, I'm not willing to buy entitlements to get my updates.
> FC has a very well working up2date. That is quiet enough for me.
> Maybe I should buy a Promise controller, to get a real RAID.

Can't you configure them as separate drives and do the RAID in Linux?


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Cheers
John