Re: SATA RAID5 adaptor other than 3ware? Thanks alot!

2005-07-21 Thread Soenke von Stamm
Hi, first off, I'll not be ableto make extensive perfomance benches. It'll go into production as soon as I've verified stability which will be done by what the mailscanners do most: extracting, scanning... then I'll recrompress and verify the data. Multiple loops over the weekend. Maybe I can d

Re: SATA RAID5 adaptor other than 3ware? Thanks alot!

2005-07-20 Thread Johan Groth
Randall J. Parr wrote: Soenke von Stamm wrote: Ok, thanks to all you guys, I have found the new LSI MegaRAID 300-8x to fit my needs most closely. They are becoming available now and I have enough time to validate one in another soon-to-arrive GX28. It has the connectors on the back side, but

Re: SATA RAID5 adaptor other than 3ware? Thanks alot!

2005-07-20 Thread Markus Boas
Am Mittwoch 20 Juli 2005 16:25 schrieb Gauthier DELERCE: > I use Areca controler (1210, 4 ports pciExpress, SATA2), perfect > solution. you need to patch your kernel with the areca patch ( included > in mm4 patch). The areca tools to monitor the controler runs fine on > debian-pure64. > > I recomm

Re: SATA RAID5 adaptor other than 3ware? Thanks alot!

2005-07-20 Thread Gauthier DELERCE
I use Areca controler (1210, 4 ports pciExpress, SATA2), perfect solution. you need to patch your kernel with the areca patch ( included in mm4 patch). The areca tools to monitor the controler runs fine on debian-pure64. I recommand this product, also I have very bad experience with 3ware

Re: SATA RAID5 adaptor other than 3ware? Thanks alot!

2005-07-20 Thread Randall J. Parr
Soenke von Stamm wrote: Ok, thanks to all you guys, I have found the new LSI MegaRAID 300-8x to fit my needs most closely. They are becoming available now and I have enough time to validate one in another soon-to-arrive GX28. It has the connectors on the back side, but it's short enough and it

Re: SATA RAID5 adaptor other than 3ware?

2005-07-20 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:51:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Nearly all SATA drivers use the scsi block layer and appear as scsi to > the kernel. The ide layer is deprecated by many programmers and seems > to be fading away slowly. According to Jeff Garzik, the SATA drivers (libata) use

Re: SATA RAID5 adaptor other than 3ware? Thanks alot!

2005-07-20 Thread Soenke von Stamm
Ok, thanks to all you guys, I have found the new LSI MegaRAID 300-8x to fit my needs most closely. They are becoming available now and I have enough time to validate one in another soon-to-arrive GX28. It has the connectors on the back side, but it's short enough and it seems to be a decent perf

Re: SATA RAID5 adaptor other than 3ware?

2005-07-19 Thread Stefan Lüthje
Hi, > Thanks! > > I have found GDT8546RZ which would fit my needs, but when I "rgrep -i" for > "icp" or "gdt" in /lib/modules/2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp/kernel/drivers/scsi , > it > only matches ips.ko which seems to be a SCSI, not SATA module. So I guess > there is a module, hopefully source code, avai

Re: SATA RAID5 adaptor other than 3ware?

2005-07-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Soenke von Stamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks! > > I have found GDT8546RZ which would fit my needs, but when I "rgrep -i" for > "icp" or "gdt" in /lib/modules/2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp/kernel/drivers/scsi , it > only matches ips.ko which seems to be a SCSI, not SATA module. So I guess > ther

Re: SATA RAID5 adaptor other than 3ware?

2005-07-19 Thread Soenke von Stamm
Thanks! I have found GDT8546RZ which would fit my needs, but when I "rgrep -i" for "icp" or "gdt" in /lib/modules/2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp/kernel/drivers/scsi , it only matches ips.ko which seems to be a SCSI, not SATA module. So I guess there is a module, hopefully source code, available from ICP'

Re: SATA RAID5 adaptor other than 3ware?

2005-07-15 Thread Stefan Lüthje
Hi, > Hi all, > > we are running an debian/amd64 mail server which runs just fine. Only > problem > is that I would like to migrate it from software/md (SATA) RAID1 to > hardware > (SATA) RAID5 which wouldn't be hard if there was enough space in the case. > > We usually use 3ware controllers (9500

SATA RAID5 adaptor other than 3ware?

2005-07-14 Thread Soenke von Stamm
Hi all, we are running an debian/amd64 mail server which runs just fine. Only problem is that I would like to migrate it from software/md (SATA) RAID1 to hardware (SATA) RAID5 which wouldn't be hard if there was enough space in the case. We usually use 3ware controllers (9500 series) without pr