RE: [SLUG] recommendations for SATA RAID controllers?

2007-05-09 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Amos, I have an Adaptec SATA II raid model 2820SA which is an 8 port working in centos (RH) 5. I don't know offhand if it will do the raid you want but it's PCI-X and works. Thanks, Ben Donohue -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [SLUG] recommendations for SATA RAID controllers?

2007-05-09 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/05/07, Ben Donohue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Amos, I have an Adaptec SATA II raid model 2820SA which is an 8 port working in centos (RH) 5. I don't know offhand if it will do the raid you want but it's PCI-X and works. Hi Ben, Thanks very much for the pointer. We are planning to

Re: [SLUG] recommendations for SATA RAID controllers?

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Kedzierski
On 5/10/07, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Does anyone have recommendations on which SATA RAID PCI controller cards should I look for a 4-disk mirror array? I'm running an el-cheapo silicon image controller, but I flashed its bios with a non-raid bios to get IDE mode to run

Re: [SLUG] recommendations for SATA RAID controllers?

2007-05-09 Thread Jeremy Portzer
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Howard Lowndes wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: I was thinking of using Linux software RAID (Debian Etch) but was very sternly warned not to do that on a production system. I don't know why not. I have had far more problems with SATA, esp mobo integrated, when running

Re: [SLUG] recommendations for SATA RAID controllers?

2007-05-09 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/05/07, Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: device. But software RAID 1 or 1+0 on a modern Linux system of any type should be fine in my opinion. If you do go with HW RAID, keep in mind you also want a card that interfaces well with Linux not just for the drive contorller itself, but