Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
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I checked the SuSE database (thanx for the remembral John Andersen), but couldn't find much info on SuSE 9.1. One controller I really liked was the HightPoint RocketRAID 454, with 4 IDE ports, 8 devices, and hardware RAID-5 support. The corporate website claims SuSE support, but I've learned that that's no guarantee. Anyone have any experience with this device?
Regards,
Pieter Hulshoff
Many of the Highpoint and Promise cards are simply IDE cards with the RAID being done in the driver. In other words, these are really software RAID. If you are going to be doing software RAID anyway, you should use the more mature md that came with your system. I would buy two additional IDE cards so each drive is by itself on a channel. I always mirror boot and swap. The rest can be RAID 5. HTH Louis