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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 15:20:40 -0500<br>
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<pre wrap="">From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jra@baylink.com"><jra@baylink.com></a>
Subject: Re: OT:Need help with old Raid array
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On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:43:38PM -0500, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> 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.
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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.
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<pre wrap=""> 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.
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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
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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?<br>
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Boaz<br>
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