On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:27:02PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering if any one knows of a way around the following problem, > and I wanted to warn people considering 3ware controllers as a storage > solution. > > I talked to 3ware already and they don't have a solution. > > The latest 3ware firmware for their current products requires that > all drives in an array be absolutely identical. > > Say you setup an 8 drive RAID 10 array and a year later a drive > blows out. You *MUST* replace it with an absolutely identical > drive. It must ID completely identifical! > > Whoa! What if the drive isn't made anymore? > > Seems like a nightmare scenario to me. Adam from 3ware contacted me and disputes the claims of the 3ware technical support department. He says that you can replace a failed drive with any drive, not just one identical to the rest of the array. This is helpful, if true. However, he did not address that rationale for considering a Maxtor 53073H6 so different from a Maxtor 53073U6 so as to refuse to use them to build an array. He did claim that a change is in the works, that I assume may address my concerns. -- Brian Litzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copyright (c) 2000 By Brian Litzinger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
