Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
kohzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all > > I'm about to install a Sarge on a ide hd (/), and create a 4 sata disk > raid 5 for /home. > Should i create it during sarge installation (at partitionning time) or > after installation with tools like emvs ? Yes. :) Those are indeed your options b

Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Dondley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone out there running a AMD64 system with onboard raid > controllers? Any problems? I'm looking at buying a server with a > Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882G3NR motherboard with an onboard cotnroller > but the server complany states on their website th

Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-23 Thread Adam Skutt
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > And I would avoid evms until it actually becomes a standard component. > lvm and md are standard and part of the installer and pretty much every > linux system. evms is not. For EVMS2, you don't have to use the kernel patches if you don't want to, though you do lose some

Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-23 Thread Adam Skutt
Steve Dondley wrote: > Can anyone out there back this up or refute it? It is deprecated, but you can try dm-raid, if you must use it: http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dmraid However, I don't recommend it. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:31:55PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > Depends on your definition of "better". > > Hardware raid does allow you to offload some processing from the main system > to the RAID card. However you need to bear in mind that volumes created with > a hardware raid card will only w

Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-23 Thread Paul Brook
On Friday 23 September 2005 12:43, Steve Dondley wrote: > Thanks for all the useful advice. One follow-up question: should I > spring for a genunie hardware controller card? Or is a Linux software > RAID "good enough?" Depends on your definition of "better". Hardware raid does allow you to offl

Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 01:22:39PM +0200, kohzak wrote: > I'm about to install a Sarge on a ide hd (/), and create a 4 sata disk > raid 5 for /home. > Should i create it during sarge installation (at partitionning time) or > after installation with tools like emvs ? I would create it during the in

Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 07:43:19AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > Thanks for all the useful advice. One follow-up question: should I > spring for a genunie hardware controller card? Or is a Linux software > RAID "good enough?" Depends what you like. If you want to do raid5, some hardware raid ca

Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-23 Thread Steve Dondley
Thanks for all the useful advice. One follow-up question: should I spring for a genunie hardware controller card? Or is a Linux software RAID "good enough?" On 9/22/05, Steve Dondley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone out there running a AMD64 system with onboard raid > controllers? Any pro

Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-23 Thread kohzak
Hi all I'm about to install a Sarge on a ide hd (/), and create a 4 sata disk raid 5 for /home. Should i create it during sarge installation (at partitionning time) or after installation with tools like emvs ? thinks Koh Anthony DeRobertis a écrit : >Steve Dondley wrote: > > > >>"Support for

Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-23 Thread Marc D. Murray
Steve Dondley wrote: Is anyone out there running a AMD64 system with onboard raid controllers? Any problems? I'm looking at buying a server with a Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882G3NR motherboard with an onboard cotnroller but the server complany states on their website that: "Support for onboard

Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-23 Thread Marc DM
Steve Dondley wrote: Is anyone out there running a AMD64 system with onboard raid controllers? Any problems? I'm looking at buying a server with a Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882G3NR motherboard with an onboard cotnroller but the server complany states on their website that: "Support for onboard

Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Dondley wrote: Is anyone out there running a AMD64 system with onboard raid controllers? Any problems? I'm looking at buying a server with a Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882G3NR motherboard with an onboard cotnroller but the server complany states on their website that: "Support for onboard R

Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-22 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Steve Dondley wrote: > "Support for onboard RAID controllers has been depreciated in the > Linux 2.6 Kernel. If you desire RAID the system may be configured with > software RAID or you may select a hardware RAID controller." Onboard software raid controller support has indeed, I think, been depri

Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-22 Thread Steve Dondley
Is anyone out there running a AMD64 system with onboard raid controllers? Any problems? I'm looking at buying a server with a Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882G3NR motherboard with an onboard cotnroller but the server complany states on their website that: "Support for onboard RAID controllers has been