I myself use a AMI 428 MegaRAID II controller in a Dell PowerEdge 2300.
According to the driver info (version 0.93 distributed by Jeffrey Jones
of AMI) it also supports the 438 board.
Kees Metzger
Philips Corporate IT
Piete Brooks wrote:
>
> I'm a fan of SW RAID (a motherboard with 3 LVD busses, 2 EIDE busses, and 1 W
> bus kind of satisfies our disk IO requirements), but I've being pressured to
> buy some HW RAID for our "main" NFS servers.
>
> The suggestion is either AMI 438 (which I was suprised not to see mentioned in
> http://linas.org/linux/raid.html) or Mylex 1164 "Extreme".
> Would users of those systems (or others) agree with the choice ?
> [ we're getting a box with 6 * 4 slot backplanes to hold "hot swap" disks,
> and are thinking of on (or maybe two) backplanes per server, so a single
> LVD bus is likely to keep us happy -- nothing big !
> Probably RAID5 over the 4 disks.
> ]
>
> I'd prefer to try the "RAID on a stick" approach of RAIDport -- or better
> still, a family which had full controllers and RAIDport.
>
> We're not after all out speed, but are interested in "ease of use"
> (we currently use DU's LSM which is a delight to use ! domains and individual
> filesystems can be resized on the fly without unmounting the FS).
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