On Friday 19 November 2004 20:02, Marco Fischer wrote: > That is not what I wanted to hear. Does it mean that IBM is selling the > perfect illusion of a hardware RAID? I think it's marketing... > > And I like RHEL, but only for commercial usage. I run a cluster of two > Oracle databases with shared storage on RHEL 2.1 Update 2. And they run and > run and run... > But for this server, I'm not willing to buy entitlements to get my updates. > FC has a very well working up2date. That is quiet enough for me. > Maybe I should buy a Promise controller, to get a real RAID. Can't you configure them as separate drives and do the RAID in Linux? -- Cheers John