On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:37:11 -0600, Dustin Decker dustin.decker@1on1security.com wrote:
I had a client some 7 years ago that had SCSI controller X, it shot craps, and data couldn't be recovered from drives because the firmware on the RAID controller was likewise not available, used a "funky" algorithm, etc. (Novell was part of that problem IIRC.)
This is one of two reasons I recommend disabling any hardware compression, and using software compression instead. The other, of course, is that software compression should be able to use a larger dictionary and achieve better compression (but might be a bit slower, and require some free disk space as a work area).
Of course, my job is to clean up the mess when things break, and I get to see just how spectacularly they can break.