Hi, It seems we have the same priorities :-) However, before I rush and order these two Highpoint 1820's ($300), it may be wise to ask the linux serial-ata specialist: Jeff Garzik jgarzik@pobox.com I'll e-mail him tomorrow. May I provide your e-mail address to him ? He was skeptical about Highpoint's linux support, but maybe things have changed since 2/1/2004 (when Highpoint posted an opensource module for the 1820 controller). Building the server is a priority to me, but I must wait for a few days anyway (Paypal refuses a transaction, when it shouldn't). Anyway, if we can get a definitive word about this controller, I think it might help a lot of people on Linux-RAID... I mean, a 64-bit 133MHz SATA controller with 8 ports, for about $150 is really nice :-) So.. if you're still interested, please let me know what you think, before I e-mail Jeff. Best Regards, JoÃl On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 23:29, Ming Zhang wrote: > On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 16:51, JoÃl Bourquard wrote: > > 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. > > > yes, so that is why i want to buy a separate sata controller. > > > > 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. > money is always an issue. :) > > > > > > 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. > yes, that price sounds great. hope to get u comments on that card soon. > thanks a lot. > > > > > 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
