Seth Bardash wrote: > These controllers survived the Virginia Hurricane at our ISP's > site and endured 132 degree F ambient temps (their NOC lost > cooling but not power) for 3 days without any failures as did the > disk arrays. with one HW component more, you get more chances of fails than with SW raid ;-) > 4) The driver source has been public domain and included in linux > since kernel rev 2.2.15 - check your machine in the > /lib/module/kernel/scsi directory for file 3w-xxxx.o - its > there!!! You can easily update the driver to the latest kernel by > downloading the source from the 3ware web site and following the > directions. This allows you to upgrade the kernel as often as you > like and then update the drivers if needed. And what's about firmware and 3dm daemon ? Do you have *source* too? > Check out the benchmark on our web site under storage for the > actual numbers. Did you make test LiNUX SW vs. 3ware HW raid? -- HTML mails are going to trash automagically
