[Beowulf] Software RAID?

[Jim Lux]

Quoting Vincent Diepeveen <diep at xs4all.nl>, on Thu 22 Nov 2007  
03:53:37 AM PST:

> Wait a minute do i read that correctly,
>
> "you have to rescan the scsi bus".
>
> In short, first you spend really a lot of money to get SCSI
> drives in order to then get confronted with all the software raid issues.
>
> If you can afford SCSI drives, why not buy a great raidcard as well?

What if your raid card fails, and the mfr no longer is in business?  
You'd have to do some intelligent sparing of raid controllers, too.