From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maurice Hilarius Subject: Re: IDE bus rescan Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 23:37:30 -0600 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020604174357.06a2ba50@mail.harddata.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020604123917.06a1ac50@mail.harddata.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020604171615.03d9ab90@mail.harddata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3CFD4BA8.3010409@fl.priv.at> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids With regards to your message at 05:22 PM 6/4/02, Friedrich Lobenstock. Where you stated: >Maurice Hilarius wrote: >>>Are you using the 3Ware Diskmanager Daemon and its webinterface or not? >>>It seems not. >>As I understand it that is only useful if we use the 3Ware BIOS RAID. >>In this case we are interested in doing this with software RAID >>So how would we make it rescan with this?? > >Then why on earth did you buy a 3Ware Controller if you are using it as a >normal ide controller? A few good reasons: Performance using software RAID is about twice as fast When using software RAID it is not fussy if all disks are identical or not. The 3Ware makes a really good disk interface, is fast, and uses little CPU. With our best regards, Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 Hard Data Ltd. FAX: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue mailto:maurice@harddata.com Edmonton, AB, Canada http://www.harddata.com/ T5X 1Y3 Ask me about the UP1500 Alpha - Full systems from $3,500!