> > Are there any issues or gotchas with these?
>
> Those RAID cards are now supported in standard in 2.0.36 and 2.2.x, but
> they perform *really* badly under linux. Probably due to an untuned driver
> basically iozone or any I/O test program nearly freeze the machine :-(
I get about 7MB/sec read and write with the Intel manufactured AMI
firmware board in my Netframe MV5000. System performance seems to lag
more when write-back caching is turned on. I don't think it's very
stellar performance for a RAID 5 array of 6 UW 9,000RPM SCSI disks, but
it's stable enough with the latest driver revisions. I'd really love to
see this driver optimized though, reportedly it moves pretty well under
NT. I'm not planning on installing that to test it though, so I can't
post numbers.
This is the OEM card that runs at 66Mhz, not the retail 33Mhz version.
Brian Pape
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