From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristleifur_Da=F0ason?= Subject: Re: Several steps to death Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:45:57 +0000 Message-ID: <73e903671001260645j13750249va44eb739f56e217d@mail.gmail.com> References: <55f050077e86adeb1f4acca87cace12b.squirrel@www.dcsnow.com> <4B5EB5BD.7070406@shiftmail.org> <5931ac0a02f59a2a2e1db82c630ff474.squirrel@www.dcsnow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5931ac0a02f59a2a2e1db82c630ff474.squirrel@www.dcsnow.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: aragonx@dcsnow.com Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:17 PM, wrote: >=A0Time for a hardware RAID controller. :) I'm sorry for your data loss. Not a nice thing to experience. When/if you get a hardware RAID controller, be sure to get a hardware controller that you can reliably purchase and replace. A friend of mine had some pretty bad trouble when his hardware controller fried and he couldn't easily get a replacement. I'd actually suggest getting a h/w controller that uses an internal format that is supported by some software implementation, so you have more options to rescue the array. (I think mdadm can read some h/w ctrlr data formats (??)) Best of luck. -- Kristleifur -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html