Re: RAID controllers under Linux...

[Andy Poling]

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Lauri Tischler wrote:
> Maybe optimum solution is to use cheap hardware raid-1 as boot/root device
> and then appropiate software raid for the rest.  If you need speed then
> use raid 0+1 else use raid-5
> 
> Cheers..
> ps.  are there hardware raid-controllers for ide, minimum possible,
> just two ide-disks mirrored ?

BTDT.  I used to use a Tekram mirroring IDE controller (DC-690CD) with a
pair of IDE drives as my boot "disk".  It was cheap, and I thought I'd got
something for (relatively) nothing.

Until the day the controller spontaneously went insane and scribbled random
data *all* over both disks in the mirror.

I now know that cheap hardware RAID is perhaps not such a good idea... you
may very well get just what you paid for...

-Andy