[X-Unix] Hardware RAID Setup

[Eric F Crist]

AFAIK, Apple uses re-branded LSI RAID cards.


On May 12, 2010, at 15:33:03, Martin McCormick wrote:

> Stroller writes:
>> What model of RAID card is it?
> 
> 	It identifies itself as an appleraid card X raid device.
> In case this sounds familiar to anyone, this card contains a
> battery to keep the cache alive which gets exercised every 3
> months. When the charge is low, the card shuts off the
> write-through cache to guard against data loss if a power
> failure was to occur. I don't see a model number in the output.
> If you go to the diskutility, now, you see a 1 TB Apple Raid
> Card Media header. Before I made the raidset, you saw 2 such
> headers, one for each drive.
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Eric Crist