On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:08:13 -0500 Mark Horton wrote:
SATA raid does work under suse you just need compatible hardware. I have a 4 channel 3ware sata raid controller card (8506-4LP) and it works great under suse 9.0 pro x86_64.
This controller card works better (for me anyway) than on-board sata because on-board sata is usually run through the standard 133 mhz pci bus. 4 sata drives in raid 0 would flood this bus most certainly. 2 drives would actually. The 3ware card is pci-x and has about 4-5 times the bandwidth.
Please note that 3ware only works out of the box with < ~3.5GB of memory (= no IOMMU needed because no memory is above the 4GB boundary) To avoid corruption with more you need an patched kernel with a workaround that is not officially released yet. Inofficial version in ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak/test12/ -Andi