----- Original Message -----
From: Dale Rogers <dale.r@cox.net>
Date: Friday, January 14, 2005 7:22 pm
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: OT: data mirroring (was:
other mailinglist)

>
> Ernest Christley <echristl@cisco.com> wrote:
>
> > It wouldn't be so bad, except that I was running
RAID-0 with /home
> > spread across the drives.  
>
>   Ernest, you might want to give some thought to
getting
> a RAID 0+1 controller, if your current M/B or
controller
> don't support it.  It will cost you two more
(identical)
> drives, but drive are pretty cheap - less than
$1/GB -
> and I'll bet you'll spend more than two drives
worth of
> time trying to recover/restore your data.  
>
>   The SIIG IDE-RAID controller sells for less than
$100.
>
> Dale R.
> COZY MkIV #1254
>
>

Yeah, Linux will do all that in software.  I just
had an I/O* error that caused the safety option not
to be turned on in favor of the speed option.
Besides, who's got money to spend on hard drive.
We're trying to build an airplane here 8*)


I/O -> Ignorant Operator