Hi again, We had this discution last year. Now I have time to reinstall the system... and to order the raid controller. I will buy one of these: 3WARE 9500S-4 4HD RAID 3WARE 8506- 4 4HD RAID. OS will be Suse 9.1(maybe 10... but not 100%) I have 4 SATA HDD's and want to build a 10 Raid. According to some benchmarks the 8506 is faster then the 9500S. http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=9500s4lp&page=8 Now, I don't know which one should I buy. The price difference is 30 EURO more for the 9500. Any suggestion is welcome. Andy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Black, Alain" <ablack@bloodsystems.org> To: <Kevin_Gassiot@veritasdgc.com>; "Andy" <frum@ar-sd.net> Cc: <suse-amd64@suse.com>; <suse-ia64@suse.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:31 PM Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit? Same here. Lspci shows it as " 01:01.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 3ware 7000-series ATA-RAID (rev 01)" We are also running the 3dm software to monitor the card/RAID set. -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin_Gassiot@veritasdgc.com [mailto:Kevin_Gassiot@veritasdgc.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:42 AM To: Andy Cc: Black, Alain; suse-amd64@suse.com; suse-ia64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit? I've got one of the 8506 series SATA RAID controllers running the stock 3w-xxxx driver with no problems so far - had more problems finding an XP64 driver for it.... Kevin Gassiot Advanced Systems Group Visualization Systems Support Veritas DGC 10300 Town Park Dr. Houston, Texas 77072 832-351-8978 kevin_gassiot@veritasdgc.com "Andy" <frum@ar-sd.net> To 10/18/2005 02:57 "Black, Alain" AM <ablack@bloodsystems.org>, <suse-amd64@suse.com>, <suse-ia64@suse.com> cc Subject Re: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit?

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We also use the 3ware RAID controllers for SATA. And have had no problems with them. I supose you mean the 3ware 9500S series controllers.

I couldn't find any drivers for suse 9x 64 for the 8506 series. Andy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Black, Alain" <ablack@bloodsystems.org> To: <suse-amd64@suse.com>; <suse-ia64@suse.com> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 10:24 PM Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit? -----Original Message----- From: Jack Malone [mailto:jmalone@horizonind.com] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 4:18 AM To: suse-amd64@suse.com; suse-ia64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit? At 04:06 AM 10/17/2005, Andy wrote:

Hi to all,

We have a Fujitsu Siemens Econel 200 Server. 2x Intel Xeon 2.8, 2x SATA HDD. Suse 9.1 64 Prof is installed.

At the moment we are using a software raid, but we want to buy 2 more HDD's and implement a 0+1 or 1+0 RAID. I looked over and over about raid controllers, have found from 120 EURO's to 1000 EURO's but there seems to be a little problematic the Suse 64 driver.

A very convenient driver would be the Promise FastTrack S150 TX4 or SX4 controller but I still don't know if the drivers are quite functional.

The tx4 seems faster as the sx4 but has no 64 driver.

We had in the past some problems with hardware raid controller on suse.

Does anyone uses some good raid controllers and could give me some informations?

I have been using 3ware sata raid on two different machines here at work with amd 64 cpu's in them with no problem. suse has the 3ware driver built in for years now. been using 3ware raid cards for years also with no problems. now I am not sure what they cost in EURO's since im in the US.

jack -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help@suse.com We also use the 3ware RAID controllers for SATA. And have had no problems with them. -Alain -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help@suse.com -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help@suse.com -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help@suse.com