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David:
Your note is a bit vague about the SCSI disk controller/disk
failure.
The two issues are COMPLETELY different.
(1)
If you were set to RAID level 1 or higher (with the suitable
disks)
you ought to be able to pull the bad disk, plug a new one in and
you are back up. Some are hot swappable; even better.
(2)
If the CONTROLLER went, (not likely), just swap it.
In both cases, look at the manual.
MT:
I would NOT RECOMMEND using Win2K software RAID emulation.
Have you ever tried to recover from it with a boot sector virus,
bad BIOS, or if you need an OS clean install?
Almost impossible.
Use a RAID motherboard, or card. It is safer and way faster.
Leslie
MT wrote:
>
> David Jennings wrote:
> >
> > Have recently had a controller/ disk failure. Grateful for some practical
> > advice re SCSI raid controllers.
>
> I've generally had good results with Mylex SCSI RAID controllers. Some
> servers by HP include SCSI RAID controllers in the base configuration.
> The big advantage is that you get the case with the hot-pluggable drive
> bays etc. It all depends on how much downtime you can live with. But
> these configurations are not for the technically challenged ;-)
>
> But if you're looking for some reasonable redundancy at low cost and can
> live with a 1) few hours of downtime and 2) are willing to use the
> "outdated" NT4-Server OS, you could use the built-in software mirroring
> (of NT4). Probably the server editions of Win2000 offer some similar (or
> better).
>
> I have a spare machine, identical to my main trading machine. I only do
> a mirror of the disks. When one disk failed, system carried on fine and
> I replaced the faulty disk at a later time. If something fatal happens
> to the main system (CPU/ethernet etc failure) I can move the disks and
> suffer minimal downtime. Only problem would be if the disk contents get
> corrupted due to software issues (virus etc)
>
> Regards, MT
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Regards,
Leslie Walko
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