Re: raid controller & debian

2003-09-05 Thread Rich Puhek
Russell Coker wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 01:25, Boehn, Gunnar von wrote: I would like to set up a debian box with mirrored disks. Can anybody please give me a hint which raid controllers are supported by debian ? My original idea was to use an IDE 3ware 7000-2 controller. Would this be a good choic

RE: raid controller & debian

2003-09-05 Thread Boehn, Gunnar von
Hi all, >>My original idea was to use an IDE 3ware 7000-2 controller. >>Has someone experience with this controller and debian ? >We have 20+ Escalade 7500-8 cards and they work fairly well. [..]and many other usefull hints[..] I happy to know that the 3ware will work. :-) Thanks a lot to all

Re: raid controller & debian

2003-09-04 Thread Rod Rodolico
Just thought I'd check in. Again, as pointed out, this is a SCSI implementation. Got the card today at around 1pm. By 3pm I was installing the OS. What took so long? The CD that came with it for configuration was Windoze based and GPF'd! Downloaded a 400M ISO from IBM (ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com

Re: raid controller & debian

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 01:25, Boehn, Gunnar von wrote: > I would like to set up a debian box with mirrored disks. > Can anybody please give me a hint which raid controllers are supported by > debian ? > > My original idea was to use an IDE 3ware 7000-2 controller. > Would this be a good choice ? I hav

Re: raid controller & debian

2003-09-04 Thread Angus D Madden
Rod Rodolico, Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:28:07AM -0500: > I had the same question not too long ago, and 3ware came up as one of > the choices. But, if I remember correctly, it slows the system down > quite a bit on a rebuild. > > I have since been told by some guru's I know that the IBM ServeRaid 3H

Re: raid controller & debian

2003-09-04 Thread Rod Rodolico
I had the same question not too long ago, and 3ware came up as one of the choices. But, if I remember correctly, it slows the system down quite a bit on a rebuild. I have since been told by some guru's I know that the IBM ServeRaid 3HB (IBM p/n 37L6086) was the best choice, and mine is being del

Re: raid controller & debian

2003-09-04 Thread Thijs Welman
Boehn, Gunnar von wrote: Hello everybody I would like to set up a debian box with mirrored disks. Can anybody please give me a hint which raid controllers are supported by debian ? My original idea was to use an IDE 3ware 7000-2 controller. Would this be a good choice ? Has someone experience wit

Re: raid controller & debian

2003-09-04 Thread Theodore Knab
I would refer you to SCSI low-level drivers in the kernel config or IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices. Here is what the 2.4.20 Linux Kernel config says about 3ware: This info was wound under 'SCSI low-level drivers' section [not sure why consiering this is for ATA drives]. x CONFIG_BLK_DEV_3W_

raid controller & debian

2003-09-04 Thread Boehn, Gunnar von
Hello everybody I would like to set up a debian box with mirrored disks. Can anybody please give me a hint which raid controllers are supported by debian ? My original idea was to use an IDE 3ware 7000-2 controller. Would this be a good choice ? Has someone experience with this controller and deb