Thanks for all the useful advice. One follow-up question: should I spring for a genunie hardware controller card? Or is a Linux software RAID "good enough?"
On 9/22/05, Steve Dondley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone out there running a AMD64 system with onboard raid > controllers? Any problems? I'm looking at buying a server with a > Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882G3NR motherboard with an onboard cotnroller > but the server complany states on their website that: > > "Support for onboard RAID controllers has been depreciated in the > Linux 2.6 Kernel. If you desire RAID the system may be configured with > software RAID or you may select a hardware RAID controller." > > Can anyone out there back this up or refute it? > > > -- > Dondley Communications > http://www.dondleycommunications.com > > Communicate or Die: American Labor Unions and the Internet > http://www.communicateordie.com > -- Dondley Communications http://www.dondleycommunications.com Communicate or Die: American Labor Unions and the Internet http://www.communicateordie.com
