> Odd, I have absolutely *zero* issues with Promise PATA cards... I use > strictly software RAID on both SCSI and IDE on Linux 2.4. Never had issues > with the kernel failing due to I/O load on rebuild or dealing with failed > drives. > > Note: You can easily throttle the I/O bandwidth used for rebuilding > through /proc. I've never had to do it though. > > Now mind you all I do is software RAID1. I don't do RAID5. I typically buy > drives in pairs and then use LVM to give me a big "blob" of storage and > partition it up as I see fit with logical volumes. The largest (# of drives) > array I have is an 8-drive array, with 6 in pairs and ganged together for > about 300G and then a separate RAID0 on a pair of old IBM DeathStar drives > for my temporary data area for MythTv. This is all on a cheapass Pentium3 > system. No issues even when running in degraded mode. > > -A.
I've got 2 Promise PATA-133 in a raid 0, 4 disks 1 per channel giving me > 70MB/Sec sustained on 64-bit PCI... Not one problem so far running this setup for over a year in a production environment _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
