On a relating issue, does anyone know of a good SATA2 controller for Linux? Ta. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Sent: 02 August 2005 23:15 To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: SATA RAID controller recommendations Michael's Stationery----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Cohn Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:54 PM Subject: SATA RAID controller recommendations > I just saw your post from back in November regarding > SATA RAID controller recommendations. > > http://info.ccone.at/INFO/Mail-Archives/redhat/Nov-2004 > /msg00119.html > > What controller did you wind up using? I just purchsaed a Dell > PowerEdge 420sc with 2x80gb SATA drives and would like to add a > hardware RAID controller. My plan is to run either Fedora 3/4 or > SuSe. Michael, By far the best SATA RAID controllers with great support for Linux come from 3WARE. If you only have 2 drives, you can get away with their basic (~$120) model which can do RAID-0 and RAID-1, the 8006-2LP. It works great! We have everything they make from the basic 2-port model all the way up to a 12-port models which run our 3TB storage backup systems. Stay away from Adaptec and Promise controllers. Promise controllers have serious issues with drivers and stability, while Adaptec outright abandons brand new products and doesn't provide almost any Linux support. We had to toss several dozen of their 'brand new' zero channel SCSI RAID 2015S controllers because they announced that they would not provide drivers for kernel 2.6 - meaning FC2 and above, RHEL 4, etc. They seem to be a "Windows only" shop these days. I know it has nothing to do with SATA, but as a company in general I wouldn't buy any of their products anymore, not after spending thousands on controllers that we had to replace less than 6 months later because Adaptec decided they were going to support Windows only. Chris -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
