Hello all,
After painful experiences with some raid-controllers, namely
- Adaptec AIC-7902 in the HostRAID (RAID 1) configuration
(After 9 hours trying, searching compiling, I found this
http://mbserver.adaptec.com/view.php?bn=linux_scsi&key=1064363305&pattern=AIC-7902+hostraid
It's a shame!)
- FastTrak 100 (RAID 1 configuration)
(I was forced to use either SuSE or Red Hat, download a driver, and
taint the kernel)
So I don't want to make the same mistakes (first buy, then try) again.
I expect of linux-raid-controller that,
- the driver is opensource, means that I can use it in every linux kernel
(also debian, gentoo, ...) without tainting the kernel
(better would be that the driver is already part of the kernel)
- I can receive status-information about the RAID (e.g. via /proc/.... or
a daemon); I'll make script which sends an email to the sysadmin if
a disk crashed
- the raid still works, even if a disk crashed (this should be self-evident)
without writing megabytes in /var/log/messages
I would really be appreciate any information to the following:
IDE-hardware-RAID1:
- Which controller do you recommend (is it still available)?
- Which driver should I use? (how to install it)
- How and where can I find status information?
- what about performance?
IDE-hardware-RAID5:
- Which controller do you recommend (is it still available)?
- Which driver should I use? (how to install it)
- How and where can I find status information?
- what about performance?
SCSI-hardware-RAID1:
- Which controller do you recommend (is it still available)?
- Which driver should I use? (how to install it)
- How and where can I find status information?
- what about performance?
SCSI-hardware-RAID5:
- Which controller do you recommend (is it still available)?
- Which driver should I use? (how to install it)
- How and where can I find status information?
- what about performance?
What about the following hardware:
(found in: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/raid.html)
- Mylex RAID controllers
(found in: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/ideraid.html)
- 3ware Escalade IDE RAID controllers
- Promise SuperTRAK SX6000
- Adaptec ATA RAID 2400A
- ARCO Inc. DupliDisk IDE disk mirroring controller
- Tekram D690CD IDE PCI Cache Controller
Thanks a lot for your answers
valli
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