Has anyone else used any ohter IDE based raid cards under Suse with any luck! Damien -----Original Message----- From: Jon Pennington [mailto:cowboydren@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 8:58 AM To: SuSE-Linux List Subject: Re: [SLE] IDE RAID CARDS --- Damien Croarken wrote:

besides Promise (they suck, Ive had too many corrupted mirrors) and 3ware (They dont make them anymore) please.

Yes, Promise sucks. What's this about 3ware?!?! At any rate, there are a large number of 3ware Escalades in warehouses all over the place. My biggest problem with 3ware was the space constraints; if you want to run four disks, you need a *3/4*length* PCI slot and four cables! UGH! Personally, I'd start exploring FireWire options if you've already eliminated these two. The new 1394-ATA bridge chips are starting to get to market, and the performance is impressive. The cost is slightly higher than even a 3ware card, but you can get rackable or desktop-size enclosures with no disks, so you can use your existing drives if that's a concern of yours. AFAICT, they attach to a Linux machine as any 1394/storage device; the tricky part is setting up the RAID volumes themselves. ===== -- -=|JP|=- Hit me! - http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ Jon Pennington | Debian 2.3 -o) cowboydren @ yahoo . com | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | ICQ UIN 69 67 29 31 _\_V __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com

I have Ami (now LSI) MegaRAID but I have yet to get Suse to recognize them... I know there are folks out there you are successfully using these, but I am not one of those people. Babu --- Damien Croarken wrote:

Has anyone else used any ohter IDE based raid cards under Suse with any luck!

Damien

-----Original Message----- From: Jon Pennington [mailto:cowboydren@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 8:58 AM To: SuSE-Linux List Subject: Re: [SLE] IDE RAID CARDS

--- Damien Croarken wrote:

...

besides Promise (they suck, Ive had too many corrupted mirrors) and 3ware (They dont make them anymore) please.

Yes, Promise sucks. What's this about 3ware?!?! At any rate, there are a large number of 3ware Escalades in warehouses all over the place. My biggest problem with 3ware was the space constraints; if you want to run four disks, you need a *3/4*length* PCI slot and four cables! UGH!

Personally, I'd start exploring FireWire options if you've already eliminated these two. The new 1394-ATA bridge chips are starting to get to market, and the performance is impressive. The cost is slightly higher than even a 3ware card, but you can get rackable or desktop-size enclosures with no disks, so you can use your existing drives if that's a concern of yours. AFAICT, they attach to a Linux machine as any 1394/storage device; the tricky part is setting up the RAID volumes themselves.

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