On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:48:14PM -0500, J wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:30, Scott <scottro@nyc.
> > Just one minor example. I install a server. Linux can't work with the
> > FAKE RAID card. I want to use software RAID. My boss says, fine, but
> > what if a disk dies while you're on vacation. Can the Windows guys do
> > it without having to look up documentation?
> >
>
> The only real place to blame for this is Adaptec. HostRaid is their
> baby.
I wasn't, in this case, trying to cast blame, simply pointing it out as
an example of, I guess what I would call vendor fail. However, as you
point out below, there's not much that could be done.
>
> In any case, you're correct, it's a vendor issue, but more than that,
> it's also an issue of Distros not pushing hard enough. And honestly,
> at least in your example, they have no power to push anything.
Yuppers.
> It's hard to hit a company like Adaptec and say
> "We want you to do this because a small handful of our customers want
> the option".
I suppose it is eiher a small handful, or hobbyists. Unfortunately, we,
that s the company, falls in that small handful.
> Adaptec can just say, "So what?"
>
Would they perhaps be concerned if I told them that I might then use the
word doody head about them, hurting my karma? Hrrm, probably not.
>
> OTOH, for low end, non-mission critical servers, a decent PCI raid
> card that works is not terribly expensive either...
>
> http://www.google.
> of those would probably work...
Aren't those also host RAID? Why would they probably work?
>
> And FWIW, Adaptec may STILL have a HostRAID driver available for
> various Linuxes... We gave up on it years ago though and never looked
> back.
I know that when we've bought stuff from ZT Group, (again, lowend),
they've provided us with a driver for RH. Couldn't, obviously, upgrade
the kernel after that though. :)
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