Dan J Fraser writes:
> 
> 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, it should.

> Will the Promise FastTrack66 cards do this for me under NetBSD?  

No idea.

> Will I be able to tell if a drive has failed?

Failures are logged to the console (and hence to wherever console
messages get logged (e.g. /var/log/messages)).

Later...

Greg Oster