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Quoth Christoph Kukulies on Wed, 23 July:
: > > a) what controllers are there?

Mylex makes a SCSI RAID controller for <$1000 to start.

: > > b) can one build such systems of cheapo IDE drives?

I wish.  SCSI is hopeless these days.  About 3-5x the price
of IDE.

: [ccd]
:
: Thought of this, too, but this doesn't give me RAID advantages
: like hot swapping of media and 28 GB isn't enough, anyway :-)

Use ccd to cat multiple Mylex subsystems, and you do get RAID
advantages.  But the $/GB is a lot higher.

: BTW, how does one
: increase an existing 6GB ccd drive on the fly' (I mean without
: backing up the data) ? (assumed answer: impossible)

Nothing is impossible when it's just software.