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From: seth vidal <skvidal@phy.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: Which raid card to buy for Sarge
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:51:06 -0500
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> One point. Hardware raid (and faux hardware raid) provides real hot swap with on-the-fly rebuilds.
> Linux software raid can't (yet).

umm. That's surprising. My software raid arrays running on dell
powervault 221s scsi boxes with adaptec 39160 controllers are
hotswappable and when I put in a new disk and add it to the array it
resyncs on the fly.

Are you just talking about ide-based raid?

-sv