thx. I found that in 2.4.x kernel, there are not much sata support. In 2.6 there are some. and basing on that sata linxu status report, i think promise and serverworks should be good choices i guess. i find a promise 4 port card. but i do not know which card use server works chips. just feel curious why u use evms not lvm? :) ming On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 16:29, 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. > > 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