Adaptec Serial ATA Raid 1210SA card
Hi All, I'm running out of disk space and wondered whether to add SATA disks rather than EIDE. This card: Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1210SA is on offer reasonably cheaply. The hardware compatibility database describes its state of support as 'unknown', though Adaptec asserts that it works with SuSE. Anyone using it? Can you use it for the boot disk? Does the RAID bit work? Any probs? Thanks Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 11:49 +0100, Fergus Wilde wrote:
Hi All,
I'm running out of disk space and wondered whether to add SATA disks rather than EIDE. This card:
Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1210SA
is on offer reasonably cheaply. The hardware compatibility database describes its state of support as 'unknown', though Adaptec asserts that it works with SuSE. Anyone using it? Can you use it for the boot disk? Does the RAID bit work? Any probs?
Thanks Fergus
The specs show it supported for suse 8.0 and 8.1, it that what you are running? There was limited support for linux distros using the 2.4 kernel but none for the 2.6 kernel. I would be leery of this card. It may work without problems but probably not with 2.6 kernels. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
At 06:29 AM 6/8/2005, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 11:49 +0100, Fergus Wilde wrote:
Hi All,
I'm running out of disk space and wondered whether to add SATA disks rather than EIDE. This card:
Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1210SA
do not know anything about that card but i have had good luck with the sata raid cards from 3ware working in suse 9.2 an 9.3 at work. also the ide raid cards of theres have worked for me for years. jack
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 12:29, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 11:49 +0100, Fergus Wilde wrote:
Hi All,
I'm running out of disk space and wondered whether to add SATA disks rather than EIDE. This card:
Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1210SA
is on offer reasonably cheaply. The hardware compatibility database describes its state of support as 'unknown', though Adaptec asserts that it works with SuSE. Anyone using it? Can you use it for the boot disk? Does the RAID bit work? Any probs?
Thanks Fergus
The specs show it supported for suse 8.0 and 8.1, it that what you are running? There was limited support for linux distros using the 2.4 kernel but none for the 2.6 kernel. I would be leery of this card. It may work without problems but probably not with 2.6 kernels.
Thanks Ken - no, I definitely wanted it to run with 2.6 kernels, so I'll pass. Cheers, Fergus
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
-- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 6:49 am, Fergus Wilde wrote:
Hi All,
I'm running out of disk space and wondered whether to add SATA disks rather than EIDE. This card:
Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1210SA
is on offer reasonably cheaply. The hardware compatibility database describes its state of support as 'unknown', though Adaptec asserts that it works with SuSE. Anyone using it? Can you use it for the boot disk? Does the RAID bit work? Any probs?
Fergus, I've never had any trouble with an Adaptec card. I'd "go for it." Fred -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft. We have no bugs in our software, Never! We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost to you, at this time.
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