Subj : OS/2 Raid Controller...
To   : Oliver Rick
From : Peter Knapper
Date : Mon Feb 28 2005 07:29 pm

Hi Oliver,

BTW, judging by the datestamps on your message it took about 6 days for your 
reply to get here... must be a waystation along the path somewhere......;-)


PK> I guess it all depends on what "expensive" is.......;-) a "Hot swap" drive
PK> is not essential, just something that recovers automatically after a
PK> replacement would be nice.

 OR> Well, then it's no longer "minimal interruption", I suppose? ;-)

I consider a 15min outage to power down, change an HD, then power up again, 
with NO data loss, to be pretty insignificant compared with several hours to 
replace a failed drive, partition and restore data, but then I guess I am easy 
to please in this regard.......;-) The catch with replacement drives is that 
they are always bigger than before and revised partitioning decisions need to 
be made.......;-) I guess I like a simpler style of life, as long as it does 
things MY way......;-)

 OR> That still makes 3 drives for a RAID 5 or dumb RAID 1 
 OR> mirroring with 2 drives.

The 3 drive option seems like the most suitable one for me...


OR>> www.netcell.com

   ... bits removed ...

PK> Thanks, I will check it out. I note on the website it says -
PK>         No drivers needed (Windows 2000, XP, 2003)
PK> which sound like gobeldy gook to me, because that line is almost
PK> self-defeating.

 OR> IIRC, Daniela Engert wrote it should work with OS/2. From DaniS506.DOC:

 OR> ***  - supports the NetCell SyncRAID PATA/SATA Hardware-RAID Controller

Which is pretty good for me, Daniella is a tremendous boon to us OS/2 folks... 

Thanks...............pk.


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