On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 01:11 +0800, Franki wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm looking into setting up a SATA hardware raid, probably 5 to use with
> CentOS 4. I chose hardware raid over software mostly because I like the
> fact that the raid is transparent to the OS.
>
> Does anyone know of any SATA controllers that are well tested for this
> sort of usage?
>
> From what I can tell from googling, this is more or less where RHEL stands:
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 and the current version of Fedora
> support the following SATA chipsets:
>
> Intel's ICH5 SATA chipset
> Silicon Image's SATA chipset
>
> Does CentOS4 add anything to this as it is based on 2.6 kernel?
>
> My question upon reading what I found on Google, is if it is true
> hardware raid, shouldn't the OS not be able to tell it's raid at all?
> I'm assuming that the chipsets listed above are driver based hardware
> raid? what I am after is a raid array based on true hardware raid such
> that the OS see's just one drive, and the hardware firmware handles any
> mirror/striping.
I have used the 6 port LSI Megaraid SATA controller for an application
using an RHEL rebuild (Rocks) with a 2.4 kernel. It simply uses the same
modules as the SCSI flavor (e.g some of the Dell PERC 4 line). It has
worked like a champ (so far), and it wasn't too outrageous priced.
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Sean O'Connell
Office of Engineering Computing oconnell@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD 858.534.9716 (49716)
