[rescue] RAID (was Re: Insane drives)

[Brian Hechinger]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:13:02PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 04:13:50PM -0400, Michael S. Schiller wrote:
> > I have a friend with an SSA. I do all the sysadmin stuff on his machines, and to
> > me it looks like it's just a drive case that holds 30 drives. Am I missing
> > something, is there a hardware raid controller in there that needs to be turned
> > on, or is it's raid stuff all done in software on the host machine? Is the 110mhz
> > microsparc just to control the FC interfaces? I'm kind of confused on this.
> > -Mike
> 
> Yeah, the SSA is just a JBOD.  Any raid is done via DiskSuite.

the SSA has "RAID Acceleration"  i'm not 100% on what that means exactly, but
it does do NVRAM cache stuff, so if you lose power, bring it back up and it
will continue to write to disk.  neat little toys.  now to figure out why mine
doesn't want to work right.

-brian