Re: Another one for my list....

On 07 Jun 2007 16:19:26 -0400, Omri Schwarz
<ocscwar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Any hardware engineer who thinks RAID controllers
should track drives by drive serial numbers and not bother
to put control data with UUIDs in each drive to enable
rescue-by-dd.

Yes, 3jner, I'm looking at you.

You even managed to get one of their controllers to work?
I looked at the docs, tried to get it to run and shitcanned it.

Software RAID, a better solution.

Hardware RAID cards are all quirky.


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