Subject: Re: Hardware RAID SATA Card
To: None <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 01/08/2006 14:16:11
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>>>>> "bh" == Brian Hechinger <wonko@4amlunch.net> writes:

    bh> opinions?

opinion is that any hardware RAID that does not include battery-backed
NVRAM is a fraud and may actually be worse than an unRAIDed disk (and
this assertion does kind of agree with what you hear other people
mumbling about weird IDE raid disasters)

this is kind of zealous Sun propaganda, but it's the only explanation
of the ``RAID5 Write Hole'' I've stumbled upon so far:

 http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bonwick?entry=raid_z

I'm not sure how RAIDframe addresses this issue, if it does a better
or worse job than the cheap chinese cards?

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