Subj : Re: Novell 4.11 reboot
To   : Darren Gibbs
From : Craig Healy
Date : Wed May 24 2000 01:02 pm

-> ->> You can't move your existing volumes into a RAID5 array..
->
-> CH> Not what I meant. <g>  I'd use totally new hardware for the RAID5
->
-> Phew! Fair enough, then. :-)

<grin>  Yup.

-> Some people don't realise what "building a RAID5 array" entails, is a
-> didn't want you to come back yelling "But you said my data would be
-> OK". :-)

I can see where a first-timer might get that impression if he didn't
read the docs.  The Adaptec is easy enough to configure.

I do keep having visions of a 225gb RAID5 array.  The Adaptec UDMA
RAID card and four IBM 75gb UDMA drives.  About $3,000US for all.
<sigh>

BTW, the APC UPS was the apparent culprit on my 5:30am server
reboots.  I moved the UPS to another machine and now it has the
problem.  Still at a loss to figure *how* a UPS would do that at
the same time every day, and have nothing else in the building
affected.  Dear old Murphy..

-c-

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