At 07:44 23/10/2003, David Kempe wrote:
Well Debian didn't support that chipset natively when I installed it on the
box in question Matt :-(
just took a different woody boot disk and an extra driver.
Also needed a decent new kernel package with the mptbase and mptscsi
drivers.
according to the IBM
Well Debian didn't support that chipset natively when I installed it on the
box in question Matt :-(
just took a different woody boot disk and an extra driver.
Also needed a decent new kernel package with the mptbase and mptscsi
drivers.
according to the IBM website, the redhat installer and kernel
At 07:46 22/10/2003, you wrote:
SCSI's great. IMO, it'll always be faster, no matter what the IDE drive
specs state. I run both my workstations on SCSI, and love it. It is
pricey, however. The good news is that almost all mainstream SCSI RAID
controllers have Linux support (IIRC). I run a Dell
I'd suggest PROMISE 'hot swap' is not a good idea unless you are looking
to implement on a W2K box. Linux support was not good last time I
looked/tried.
Stu
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 09:21, James Gray wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 05:08 pm, DE LUCA Ben wrote:
> > Would any one feel inclined to recomme
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 05:08 pm, DE LUCA Ben wrote:
> Would any one feel inclined to recommend some thing? I would prefer
> hardware over software and I don't need much space, a couple of hundred
> gigs, I just want it to be stable and safe. I will probably Just raid
> mirror two drives.
>
> SCSI is b
answers and questions bellow.
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 06:10 PM, Matt M wrote:
You can hotswap IDE RAID, with either Promise's HotSwap Kit
(specifically designed for RAID1), or using something like External
Serial-ATA from HighPoint (they may make an internal version of this;
I've tho
You can hotswap IDE RAID, with either Promise's HotSwap Kit (specifically
designed for RAID1), or using something like External Serial-ATA from
HighPoint (they may make an internal version of this; I've thought about
reverse engineering their hotswap containers; I suspect they just wire
straigh
Would any one feel inclined to recommend some thing? I would prefer
hardware over software and I don't need much space, a couple of hundred
gigs, I just want it to be stable and safe. I will probably Just raid
mirror two drives.
SCSI is best for its hotswap ability. So no IDE,ATA cards thanks?
Wh
