Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > Hi all > > I notice there are these new-fangled motherboards with 2*ATA-100 and > 2*ATA-33 ports. With 75GB disks, that baby should give us 600GB of raw > disk space (8 drives) at around $2K US. Sounds attractive, considering > that el-cheapo RAID boxes of similar capacity are around $10K. > > Anyone runs [Debian] Linux on an 8-drive box like that? Is that > supported at all? Any gotchas I should know about? The mobo I'm looking > at is ABIT BH6-II.
It's supported. I don't know about your motherboard. I have a Promise Ultra 100 on an older MB. Just make sure your power supply is up to it. I patched a 2.2.18 kernel to add support for the Ultra 100. Beyond that it's stock. Note, I had to make the /dev/hd[efgh]* devices. Sofar I haven't done anything with raiding them. A friend's experience shows that raid 0 and 1, striping and mirroring, works quite nicely and fast while raid 5 is slow. This is due to the CPU having to calculate the raid 5 checks blocks. The major issue I've run into is finding places for my 6 HDs. I ended up using a couple plates of metal to make a short tower to hold 4 of them in front of a fan. This is the df from my system. Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdc1 120995 100189 14558 88% / /dev/hdc2 3937316 531616 3205688 15% /tmp /dev/hdd2 3937316 317652 3419652 9% /var /dev/hdc3 25486572 2089916 22878796 9% /usr /dev/hdd3 25486572 12028780 12939932 49% /home /dev/hde2 44171784 38973680 4307648 91% /data1 /dev/hdg2 44171784 37325684 5955644 87% /data2 /dev/hdh2 79227344 67338352 11093560 86% /data3 /dev/hda5 11542670 9426807 2115863 82% /winE -- | Bryan Andersen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.nerdvest.com | | Buzzwords are like annoying little flies that deserve to be swatted. | | -Bryan Andersen |