New subject: [suse-ia64] Re: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit?

14 Feb 2006


      Hi to all,
I got the 9550SX-4LP. It works great. OS: Suse 10.
The only thing I had to do is a firmware update to the controller and to 
specify the drivers at Suse installation.
Now, I read about some problems when updating Suse ... more exactly a kernel 
update, that the drives are not seen anymore after a reboot. I would like to 
update the suse but I work remote and if the system doesn't boot anymore 
then I have BIG problems.
Do you have any suggestions? or... it should work well....
Andy.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: bdehn@oreillyauto.com
To: "Andy" frum@ar-sd.net
Cc: suse-amd64@suse.com; suse-ia64@suse.com
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit?
...
Check out the 9550SX-4LP. I have used all three (8506, 9500, and 9550) and
performance gets better with each version.
Bob Dehn
"Andy" frum@ar-sd.net wrote on 01/12/2006 08:46:08 AM:
...
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>


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                                       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
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We also use the 3ware RAID controllers for SATA.  And have had no
problems with them.
-Alain
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