Filepro-list Digest, Vol 34, Issue 9

[Boaz Bezborodko]

Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 15:20:40 -0500
> From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
> Subject: Re: OT:Need help with old Raid array
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
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> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:43:38PM -0500, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
>   
>>    They're Seagate Cheetahs and I think they are pushing 5 years. I do
>>    have daily backups that are verified immediately after being done.
>>    But the Raid 5 should be able to handle drive failures which leads
>>    me to think that this isn't the problem.
>>     
>
> Yeah, you're right... unless you had overlapping soft failures on 2
> drives, as Bill(?) suggested.  Drives are cheap these days, though, and
> there's no real sense in waiting til one fails.
>
>   
>>    I was thinking of upgrading the array and server hardware anyway,
>>    but I want to avoid hassles with hardware incompatible with my
>>    Netware5, and I'm not yet ready to upgrade to Win 2003.
>>     
>
> Well, Novell would probably tell you to upgrade to SLES10, which comes
> with available Netware server software, and they're probably right...
>
> And if you can find a RAID controller that won't work with SuSE 10,
> send me one; I'll eat it.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>   
Am I looking at a long learning curve by installing SLES10?  Or is it
easier to go with an old suggestion to move to Windows 2003 and use
Terminal services?

Boaz
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