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

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 kohzak
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 depricated. Most on-board RAID solutions

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 problems

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 cards

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

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 offload

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 work

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.

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 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

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 but why

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

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

Re: RAID controllers

2005-07-27 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:13:10AM +0900, ? wrote: A few weeks ago, I have been done some benchmark with areca and 3ware9500. I used my own benchmark program which issue sequeuntil read and write request. Result ::: 1 ~ 10 client : roughly areca is better than 3ware about 15%.

RAID controllers

2005-07-26 Thread Jerome Warnier
Anybody here has an experience with Sil3114 or Areca RAID SATA controllers? I'm wondering which one is best on AMD64, or if I stick with a 3Ware Escalade 8600 instead. I'm planning to use Debian Sarge, of course. Thanks -- Jerome Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] BeezNest -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RAID controllers

2005-07-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:23:05PM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: Anybody here has an experience with Sil3114 or Areca RAID SATA controllers? I'm wondering which one is best on AMD64, or if I stick with a 3Ware Escalade 8600 instead. I'm planning to use Debian Sarge, of course. I haven't

Re: RAID controllers

2005-07-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:59:07PM +0200, Mickael Marchand wrote: well my experience with 3ware 8xxx tells the exact contrary, their RAID5 sucks as hell. With 2 of these cards with many new Maxtor drives, I was changing a hard drive every week ! I won't tell you how many times it totally broke

Re: RAID controllers

2005-07-26 Thread Bharath Ramesh
* Jerome Warnier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anybody here has an experience with Sil3114 or Areca RAID SATA controllers? I'm wondering which one is best on AMD64, or if I stick with a 3Ware Escalade 8600 instead. We have the 3ware Escalade 8600 in our storage server and their Linux support

Re: RAID controllers

2005-07-26 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:37:25AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:23:05PM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: Anybody here has an experience with Sil3114 or Areca RAID SATA controllers? I'm wondering which one is best on AMD64, or if I stick with a 3Ware Escalade

Re: RAID controllers

2005-07-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 06:12:19PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: The -mm kernels come with Areca drivers. they are at at least included in 2.6.13-rc3-mm1. Andrew Morton keeps a set of broken out patches, so you can also patch other kernels:

Re: RAID controllers

2005-07-26 Thread Mickael Marchand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lennart Sorensen a écrit : On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:23:05PM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: Anybody here has an experience with Sil3114 or Areca RAID SATA controllers? I'm wondering which one is best on AMD64, or if I stick with a 3Ware Escalade

Re: RAID controllers

2005-07-26 Thread Bharath Ramesh
computer magazine c't suggests the Areca cards are faster. Areca according to the benchmarks is definitely a better card. I don't remember when I read but I did review of a bunch of RAID controllers done under Linux. Depending on you need you would need to decide if you want to use a host based

Re: RAID controllers

2005-07-26 Thread 김경표
- Original Message - From: Bharath Ramesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Erik Mouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jerome Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-amd64 debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 1:31 AM Subject: Re: RAID controllers * Erik