> - The last time I had to deal with promise it was horrible, we had a > SX-something and a sx-5000 (I think) and I was told that in a raid-5 > array, that drives just go "offline" and there is no way to > recover/rebuild the array from the BIOS. They said that I should boot > into DOS to restore the partition table once I replaced the bad drive. So > basically (I think that one server was FreeBSD and the other was Linux) if > drives go "offline", you're screwed. Thanks promise- and I promptly > yanked the card and tossed it in the junk pile. Just fair warning that A) > their products are sub standard and B) their tech support is far worse.
I'm not even trying to do RAID. :-/ Got any recomendations on a good card?
