On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 15:11 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > [2] Myself, I've never had a problem the "megaraid" driver that's been > part of the standard Linux kernel since circa 2001. Obviously, > experiences vary.
I've just had a rather foul run-in with a MegaRaid chipset embedded on a SuperMicro server board, since it wasn't supported by the version that's been part of the standard Linux kernel since ca. 2001 (and hasn't been updated since). I ended up having to reflash with a dumb firmware that just presents the disks as JBOD; theoretically, there are driver disks that work with older versions of RedHat, but I've never run across a special driver boot disk that I haven't misplaced, and if they're not doing the work to put it in the standard kernel, I don't have a whole lot of hope for it continuing to work with future updates to the kernel. Maybe there are some good hardware RAID systems out there. I wouldn't know, as I've never actually seen one (that might be because anybody who actually has one wouldn't let the likes of me near it!) -- Stephen Ryan <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
