So what you REALLY want is a lot(!) of ATA disks that can be connected somehow to a Linux box? :-) If you're sure you want to use ATA cards, I'd suggest getting hold of Promise or HighPoint and first send an email to their respective support addresses and ask if there are any issues with using that many cards. I'd wonder about IRQs and if all the BIOS will conflict or not? My big concern would be reliabilty - It would be worth looking at products specifically designed to handle lots of disks. How many do you plan for? 6 cards * 2 channels/card * 2 drives/channel = 24 disks... (with 100GB+ disks is a lot of storage) For that scale, SCSI to ATA-RAID systems like Promise UltraTrak are not a bad idea... and if it's just a dumb fileserver, some form of NAS might be a lot easier. Anyway, have a look on www.promise.com, as well as www.3ware.com and www.highpoint-tech.com for their "big" cards / systems. On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 00:48, Ola Fransson wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Barrington" <rich_b_nz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 3:21 AM > Subject: Re: What to choose > > > If you want more info, can you post your intended purpose / setup to the > > list? Eg, why 6 controllers? > Will do :D > I it is going to be a file server and im not in need of the ATA RAID only > the ATA controller > > So what I want is a lot of ATA controllers that works together in linux, im > not in need of any speed (more then ata66 anyway). > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list >
