Hi, brand new newbie (is that redundant?) here, who soon to be the proud owner of a 3ware 8506-4 RAID card, on its way in the mail. I'm running an old P3 on SuSE 9.2 and would like to know what to read to get up to speed on setting this card up and maintaining it once I do. I'm pretty new to linux and get a lot of advice that is pitched just slightly above my level of understanding, so please go slow.
I'm currently using a Compaq SmartArray 3200 with 8 drives and I've about given up getting any kind of reasonable performance out of it. That, plus the outrageous cost of SCSI drives, is the reason for the switch to SATA. I can borrow a pair of 300 GB drives for a while to prove the concept (the 3ware card wasn't that pricey) and if I can get it to work reasonably well, buy some drives. I think there's some voodoo in the BIOS of a real Compaq server that makes it work properly; for me it's a dog and writes unbelievably slow.
I've been reading this group for a few weeks and hear some hints and intimations about things I should probably learn about. For example, someone just mentioned tw_cli maint verify, is that a 3ware thing or a ext3 thing? And the fact that there is a 3ware knowledgebase (e.g. http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=13247 should help.
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