On Thu, 03 May 2012 16:30:00 +0000, Camaleón wrote: <snipped>
> In brief, yes, that card seems one of those you can consider to be > "safe" enough to don't have many problems :-P This sounds very good :-) >>> Mmm, yes. I can't tell for that specific model but LSI is a good >>> manufacturer for HBA solutions and also linux-friendly, at least >>> that's what I've heard :-) >> >> Yes, I hope I won't have any problems with them. Especially because >> they too promise SuSE and Red Hat support but only have a Debian 5 >> driver on their homepage. >> >> But since the hwraid page shows good support for MegaRAID cards I'm >> optimistic :-) > > At this point, let me share my own experience with hardware RAID cards > because "not all that glitters is gold" :-) > > This is an own-made list I did of things one should take into account > for hardware RAID cards: > > 1/ The driver is included in the kernel (you will avoid many problems) This seems to be the case. > 2/ The card's manufacturer provides a set of CLI tools (also GUI/web > based) to control all of the aspects of the RAID volume (from array > creation/modification/reconstruction/rebuilding/deletion/on-the-fly > volume expansion/current array status... up to firmware update, if > possible) Didn't find any infos about that :-? > 3/ The manufacturer is enough linux-friendly so that in the event of a > problem you can contact them with no regrets :-) Hope I don't have to find out about that ;-) Btw: Wouldn't it be better to use software raid? In case of failure of the controller I would need to get exactly the same card again? Or if I ever want to exchange the mainboard and use one with a SAS controller onboard? >>> Mmm, yes, there's something strange there. Ah, I think I got it :-) >>> >>>> $ sudo lspci | grep Marvel >>>> 01:00.0 RAID bus controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. >>>> MV64460/64461/64462 System Controller, Revision B (rev 01) >>> >>> This can be the motherboard SATA 2 controller. >>> >>>> 02:00.0 RAID bus controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. >>>> MV64460/64461/64462 System Controller, Revision B (rev 01) >>> >>> This can be the SAS add-on card. >> >> I think they probably are the two SAS cards > > I also thought so, but it cannot be that way :-) > > (note the add-on card is SATA 2 -and thus 3 Gbps- while one of the > embedded ports is rated at 6 Gbps and there's only one port listed that > features the 6 Gbps speed) > >>> Does this make more sense? Yes, exact numbers do not match but this >>> can be due to a simple identification problem ("update-pciids" could >>> solve this). >> >> I did update-pciids but the numbers didn't change. But anyhow they are >> the same as on the debian wiki pci database. Or what numbers don't >> match? > > I wouldn't bother about that. Maybe is just the chipsets are still not > listed at the upstream PCI ID database. Ok, I already forgot :-) Thanks for all your help and advices! Ramon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jnuinb$rq8$1...@dough.gmane.org