Hi all.
I'm running Fedora 8, and having suffered a recent hard disk
failure, I want to set up a RAID1 array of two EIDE ATA 133
physical drives for my server. These will use the maximum
number of partitions allowed under Linux. I also want to use
a seperate non-raid ATA drive for making backups of
important data from the RAID arrays. So in total I would
have my important data on three seperate physical drives.
I'm also making backups of my data to CD-R and DVD+R as
well.
I have the standard EIDE connectors on my Motherboard, which
will be used for the backup ATA drive, and the DVD RW
optical drive. All drives will use separate cables and work
as master drives. This applies to the RAID1 array drives as
well.
**My Questions are:**
Do the PCI EIDE cards need to be supported with kernel
drivers, or can I put any PCI EIDE card in the machine and
it will 'just work'?
Obviously I don't want to buy the wrong PCI EIDE/ATA
controller card.
Can anyone recommend any PCI EIDE ATA controller cards that
are known to work under the latest versions of Linux please,
without me having to keep re-compiling the kernel to support
the PCI EIDE card?
I'm running kernel-2.6.24.4-64.fc8
Kind Regards
Keith Roberts
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