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Boot XP from CD-Rom? Need help fellas...
boykster:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on April 16, 2007, 12:47:14 am ---When a drive fails in either system, how do you know it? Does it throw an error, and is it the same regardless of hardware or software setup?
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What Samstag said, but with a bit of elaboration:
Nearly every form of RAID (hardware or software, OS dependant or otherwise) has a mechanism for alerting the user that a failure has occured. usually this is some form of monitoring application that either is just a nagging alert of some sort, or a more sophisticated process that can send an email, initiate a shutdown, etc.
I have 2 linux servers with 3ware hardware RAID cards that automatically shutdown after 5 minutes if an array becomes degraded. I also receive an email notifiying me of the degradataion and shutdown as well. Additionally, 3ware provides a web based "console" that can be used to monitor the arrays, perform maintenance, etc.
I used to have a hardware/software RAID1 setup (on a dedicated card) on a workstation at work up until december. There was a monitoring application that could be configured to do the same thing...popup alert of drive problem, shutdown the machine, etc.
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