> On Tuesday 21 October 2003 03:40, Michael wrote: > > I've just inherited a couple of rack servers that have the buggy dpt > > scsi controllers and I need to replace them with something solid. > > Well, I use a dpt SCSI-Controller for some time now and luckily > found no bugs at all. I always thought they were quite good quality. > > > Recommendations for a pci scsi-3 controller would be appreciated. > > I used a Mylex DAC960 and was never really fond of it. Maybe the > AcceleRAID product line is better, but I don't know. > > The RAID-company that produces to my mind the best Hardware RAID > solutions is ICP Vortex. (Maybe they changed names now as they are > bought by some bigger company). Anyway, they provide excellent > quality hardware and write their Linux drivers themselves and > contribute the code open to the Linux source tree. > > The downside of ICP Vortex is that they are quite expensive. > > Another thing that I would consider is software RAID. Although > software RAID consumes far more CPU and is probably slower, to my > mind the reliability is higher. The Linux RAID-code is thouroughly > tested and proved to work. I'm running software raid on everything (7 hosts), have since kernel 2.0 but it's all IDE on individual controllers -- no scsi. I'm just not familiar with which scsi cards are well supported now and don't want an orphan or one with a driver that does not work well. I've already managed to lock up these DPT beasts a couple of times on each of the servers that have them and would like very much to trash them soon. However, I don't want something just as bad :-( Michael Michael@Insulin-Pumpers.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
