Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-07-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hallo Andrew, Am 10:38 2003-06-24 +0200 hat Andrew Miehs geschrieben: Hi all, does anyone have any experience with large IDE disks on Debian? I was interested in buy a couple of Western Digital 250GB Disks for backup purposes... Ich am running Woody release 1 with Kernel 2.4.19 and can

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-25 Thread Thomas Lamy
Jason Lim wrote: Well, since no one has said it yet, I'll chip in... We've have great results by using 3ware cards. Their drivers are fully open source, and are available as part of the source kernel as well, so you don't have to wait for the right drivers to come out for a particular

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-25 Thread DI Peter Burgstaller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just to have a little more to choose from, I've also used the CERC controllers which Dell puts into their servers successfully. Performance and debian support is good but I haven't had to recover a failed drive yet. - - Just my 2 cents. - - Cheers,

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-25 Thread Thomas Lamy
Jason Lim wrote: Well, since no one has said it yet, I'll chip in... We've have great results by using 3ware cards. Their drivers are fully open source, and are available as part of the source kernel as well, so you don't have to wait for the right drivers to come out for a particular

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-25 Thread DI Peter Burgstaller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just to have a little more to choose from, I've also used the CERC controllers which Dell puts into their servers successfully. Performance and debian support is good but I haven't had to recover a failed drive yet. - - Just my 2 cents. - - Cheers,

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Diederik de Vries
Op di 24-06-2003, om 10:38 schreef Andrew Miehs: Hi all, does anyone have any experience with large IDE disks on Debian? They work perfectly with a custom 2.4.20. Only 2.4.20 (or a patched 2.4.18) accepts 120G Kind regards, Diederik

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Brad Lay
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Andrew Miehs wrote: Hi all, does anyone have any experience with large IDE disks on Debian? I was interested in buy a couple of Western Digital 250GB Disks for backup purposes... And secondly, does Serial ATA work properly in Woody? or do I need a new Kernel?

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Thomas Kirk
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:02:21PM +1000, Brad Lay wrote: I'd stay well clear of promise if you want it to work under Debian. I would like to support that statement. Ive had nothing but trouble with promise under debian :( -- Venlig hilsen/Kind regards Thomas Kirk ARKENA tlf/phone +4570233456

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, then what should I use if you don't recommend promise? Thanx Andrew On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 13:20 Europe/Berlin, Thomas Kirk wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:02:21PM +1000, Brad Lay wrote: I'd stay well clear of promise if you want it to work under Debian. I would like to

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Diederik de Vries
Op di 24-06-2003, om 14:20 schreef Andrew Miehs: If you could, 3ware. Otherwise use FreeBSD with Promise :) Hi all, then what should I use if you don't recommend promise? Thanx Andrew On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 13:20 Europe/Berlin, Thomas Kirk wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Jesse Molina
I honestly regret to say the same, but it's true. Promise cards are great under an MS Windows OS, but not GNU/Linux. It's the driver issues. Thomas Kirk wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:02:21PM +1000, Brad Lay wrote: I'd stay well clear of promise if you want it to work under Debian. I

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Jason Lim
different, but as is, the 3ware cards won out :-) Sincerely, Jas - Original Message - From: Jesse Molina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Thomas Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 June, 2003 12:48 AM Subject: Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian I honestly regret to say

RE: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Jones, Steven
: Jason Lim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 June 2003 9:27 AM To: Jesse Molina; Thomas Kirk Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian Well, since no one has said it yet, I'll chip in... We've have great results by using 3ware cards. Their drivers are fully open

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Diederik de Vries
Op di 24-06-2003, om 10:38 schreef Andrew Miehs: Hi all, does anyone have any experience with large IDE disks on Debian? They work perfectly with a custom 2.4.20. Only 2.4.20 (or a patched 2.4.18) accepts 120G Kind regards, Diederik

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Brad Lay
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Andrew Miehs wrote: Hi all, does anyone have any experience with large IDE disks on Debian? I was interested in buy a couple of Western Digital 250GB Disks for backup purposes... And secondly, does Serial ATA work properly in Woody? or do I need a new Kernel?

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Thomas Kirk
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:02:21PM +1000, Brad Lay wrote: I'd stay well clear of promise if you want it to work under Debian. I would like to support that statement. Ive had nothing but trouble with promise under debian :( -- Venlig hilsen/Kind regards Thomas Kirk ARKENA tlf/phone +4570233456

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, then what should I use if you don't recommend promise? Thanx Andrew On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 13:20 Europe/Berlin, Thomas Kirk wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:02:21PM +1000, Brad Lay wrote: I'd stay well clear of promise if you want it to work under Debian. I would like to support

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Diederik de Vries
Op di 24-06-2003, om 14:20 schreef Andrew Miehs: If you could, 3ware. Otherwise use FreeBSD with Promise :) Hi all, then what should I use if you don't recommend promise? Thanx Andrew On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 13:20 Europe/Berlin, Thomas Kirk wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Jesse Molina
I honestly regret to say the same, but it's true. Promise cards are great under an MS Windows OS, but not GNU/Linux. It's the driver issues. Thomas Kirk wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:02:21PM +1000, Brad Lay wrote: I'd stay well clear of promise if you want it to work under Debian. I

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Jason Lim
different, but as is, the 3ware cards won out :-) Sincerely, Jas - Original Message - From: Jesse Molina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Thomas Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, 25 June, 2003 12:48 AM Subject: Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian I honestly regret

RE: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Jones, Steven
: Jason Lim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 June 2003 9:27 AM To: Jesse Molina; Thomas Kirk Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian Well, since no one has said it yet, I'll chip in... We've have great results by using 3ware cards. Their drivers