RE: [SLE] IDE RAID CARDS

21 Oct 2001


      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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RE: [SLE] IDE RAID CARDS

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