On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:35:54PM -0400, Rich 'Forge' Mingin -2KAS wrote: > I was just about to upgrade to a 3ware Escalade card to get my disk I/O > sped up, but I found out 3ware has basically killed the Escalade line, > as of a few days ago. This leaves me with three options: > > 1. SCSI > 2. IDE Raid stuff > 3. Suffering on > > I'd really like to go on with #2. > > Basically, what IDE RAID controllers are currently supported/working? > I've heard that the Promise Supertrak is, although unsupported, fully > hardware and OS transparent. Modern 2.4 kernels should just work with it, as it's an I2O device. Having said that, Promise seems to change the firmware once in a while and I've heard rumours that latest firmware is broken so that i2o doesn't work. > Failing that, I'd like to use a Fasttrak > TX4 or so, and failing that, a Fasttrak100. I currently have Debian > Unstable installed on an Ultra100, and I'd prefer to get the new disk > subsystem running and move over, if at all possible. Fasttrak support is improving but still very experimental. If it's a production server, linux softwareraid might be a good alternative for your problem. Greetings, Arjan van de Ven
