On Wednesday 06 October 2004 03:00 pm, Craig Kelley wrote: > Simon Weller wrote: > >Adaptec do some nice controllers, but stay away from the cheaper ones, as > > they often use third party chipsets from the likes of Promise. > >I don't have a lot of experience with Mylex cards, although from memory > > some of them use Symbios based chipsets, and I haven't had a good run > > with them either. > > > >Those two distributors you mentioned in regards to 3ware are master > > channel distributors. You will find 3ware products available through most > > general distributors as they buy their product from their upstream. > > Adaptec's aacraid controllers are horrible with kernel/bios matching. > We currently have 30-some-odd Dell Poweredge 2650's with Perc3/Di > controllers. You can only run BIOS XXX with kernel YYY from Redhat 7.3 > and such (hence fedora-legacy -- ;-). We hate them, and are planning on > using LSI (megaraid series) from here on out. > LSI gear looks pretty nice, haven't had the chance to play with it much yet though. - Si > As for IDE; we've used 3ware twice, and have been impressed. -- Simon Weller LPIC-2 Systems Engineer NZServers LTD http://www.nzservers.com/ U.S. Branch <- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. - Scott Granneman, Security Focus -> -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
