On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 yocum@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Seth Mos wrote:
> >
yada yada.
> File system? Who needs a file system? I edit inodes by hand! ;-)
I've got 2 really big magnets and a pointy stick.
> FWIW, I got really good at reliably corrupting my data with the 3ware 6800
> card and RAID5: just turn off a drive while it was writing.
Write caching off thr IDE drive?
> happened. I've been testing 3 7810 cards they lent to me a couple weeks
> ago, and I haven't had a problem yet (after ~10TB write/reads and ~12
> simulated drive failures under a variety of high and low I/O and CPU duty
> cycles.
That's good to hear, but they won't be cheap in the netherlands.
I have not owned a 3ware card ever, but I don't need them yet. I can still
fit all the neccesary data on normal disks.
Cheers
Seth
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