On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 22:29, Hendrik Visage wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:54:44PM -0500, Ming Zhang wrote: > > Hi, I want to setup a software raid and lvm configuration with 2-4TB raw > > disk space. I wonder if you can give me some suggestions on what kind of > > sata controllers are friendly to my purpose? :) > > Those supported properly in the kernel :) > > At present I'm using the onboard Via & Promise (20378) for SATA + (evms) > software RAID, but there are others that have different views on which > controller(s) to use. > Unfortunately an onboard SATA RAID controller will not be enough for 2-4TB. I'm looking to build the exact same thing (at least 2TB) using 256GB SATA disks. If money is no issue, the 8- or 12-port 3ware SATA RAID controllers have excellent linux support. For software RAID, I think it's overkill.. why buy a RAID coprocessor when you don't actually use it ? I think I'll go with two Highpoint 1820 (8-port) PCI-X controllers and see how it works.. Linux support wasn't their strong point in the past, but it seems they released an "open-source" kernel module on 2nd January, 2004. Maybe a RAID guru can have a look at it, and see if it's a marketing joke or not ? Anyway, for the price I think I'll take the risk and order two of them next week. Regards, JoÃl > Hendrik > - > 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 - 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
