hi, On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:49:30PM +0000, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Hello wise people of debian-user, > > Apologies for the off-topic post but in my experience, debian-user seems > to encompass the more intelligent of the human species and seem to be > able to answer almost any question. > > I have decided to take the first steps into the world of SCSI and have > bought three 2gb hard drives (on impulse which was probably not a good > start). > > I am now looking to buy a pci scsi card and the cheapest one I found was > the tekram 315U (£30). I also intend to have an IDE hard drive so the > no-boot part is OK. > > Is this card generally well supported in the 2.4 range kernels and are > there any things in particular that I have to look out for while taking > on this endeavour.
according to the suse hardware database it is fully supported
> Also, is this a generally good card and does striping provide decent
> performance improvements (im thinking of using lvm)
i personally have best experience with dawicontrol, adaptec and symbius
logic cards. never tried tekram yet so i can't tell you if it is a good
card. striping does give a performance improve, i have 2 udma100 disks in
one of my boxes and the lvms i stripe are much faster than a single disk.
check out the software raid howto for some tips regarding chunk size and
block size (raid 0).
hth martin
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