On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:44:40AM -0400, Dan J Fraser wrote:
> 
> I need to colocate a machine and have it be somewhat reliable.  So, I was
> thinking I should put two drives in it, and use RAIDframe with level 1.
> 
> The reliability level I want is this:  If a drive dies, the machine should
> keep working until I can get on-site and fix it.  It doesn't have to be
> hotswap, etc... A few minutes of downtime for a driveswap/reboot is fine,
> but a few hours of downtime while I drive to the facility is not fine.
> 
> Will RAIDframe on i386 hardware (Intel BX IDE?) do this for me?

Yes, certainly, exept for the boot I think.
I've done some tests on an Alpha (SCSI) and it seems to do the job, expect a
minor annoyance with swap on raid, which can be worked around.

> 
> Will the Promise FastTrack66 cards do this for me under NetBSD?  Will I be
> able to tell if a drive has failed?

Not sure but I just got one of these boards so I'll be able to test :)

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