On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:06:46AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Daniel Brahneborg <basic@wtnord.net> writes: > >> > It doesn't work with Silicon Image. > >> > >> What doesn't work? There are drivers, at least in 2.6. Raid should > >> care about what sort of disks you use. > > > > When using it for normal disks e2fsck reports bad blocks all > > over the disk. When used for RAID, I get corrupted data. Not > > much, maybe every second time for a file of 500MB. > > This is with the IDE driver. With the SCSI driver, my computer > > completely freezes when I activate my second network card (as I > > reported earlier, unfortunately still without a solution). > > RAID might work with that driver, but unless the network card > > problem is solved, that doesn't help me. > > That sounds rather odd. Have you reported this to the appropriate > places? I emailed the persons in the MAINTAINERS file that seemed relevant (Jeff Garzik, mainly). I don't really know where else to go, I'm afraid. > >> > It doesn't work with VIA (yet, anyway). > >> > It might work with HighPoint. > >> > >> I've run RAID5 on a Highpoint RocketRAID 1540. I used ATA disks with > >> SATA converters, though. Works with both 2.4 and 2.6. > > > > Sounds good to hear. It's the second cheapest card for me. > > Beware that several people have reported some rather strange problems > with the Highpoint cards. You should get a deal to take it back if it > doesn't work. I buy most things from komplett.se, they're nice with returns. > >> > I don't know if there's a driver for Adaptec. > >> > >> Which Adaptec card? The 12xx cards are fakeraid, but are supported as > >> normal cards. The 24xx cards are true hardware RAID cards. Linux > >> drivers exist for these, too. > > > > It's the 12xx cards that I'm looking at. I don't want hardware > > RAID, since hardware RAID5 costs an infinite amount of money. > > Not really. The Adaptec 24xx cards cost about the same as the disks > you attach to them. I ordered one from a while ago, but the shop went > bankrupt before I got it, or at least their web site disappeared and > they stopped answering mail or phone calls. The Adaptec card I found would cost $250, which is about $200 more than I can spend on it. If I can't get RAID5 to work I'd rather buy more disks and do RAID10. > >> > In case I have to replace my Silicon Image card, what should I replace > >> > it with? I'm currently leaning towards Promise TX4 (or TX2 if the VIA > >> > driver is completed). > >> > >> I stay as far away as I can from Promise and VIA. Anything is usually > >> better than those two. > > > > Why the warning about Promise? > > I've had some bad experience with them, that's all. They appear to be > incompatible with Alpha machines, but probably work better in PCs. I have a PC, so I'm hoping for the best. I'll still make sure that I can return it if it fails. /Basic - 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
