Re: [MLUG] Multi-disk controller

[Mark Haidekker <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I remember that 3ware has their interesting escalade series of controllers up 
to 8 ports. I have no experience with those (except an Escalade 2-port 
running smoothly since 2 years with RH 7.1), but I know that those guys are 
highly Linux-friendly.

Mark


On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:02 pm, you wrote:
> So we need another terabyte of storage around here and I want to build
> anoter RAID box.
>
> The one we have now is stuffed full of Promise ATA/133 controller cards
> and six 160GB disks in RAID-5. About once a month it crashes hard with a
> kernel panic. and it regularly logs CRC errors although it continues to
> work.
>
> Never have debugged this one, we just hit the big switch and continue
> working. I'm running smartd and it seems to thinks the disks themselves
> are OK (they're fairly new).
>
> So for the next server we build, I want to ditch these Promise cards
> (which have BIOSes that try to prevent this kind of use) and go with
> some hardware RAID5 card.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions for RAID cards or some other
> controller that will peacefully support (8) or so IDE chains?
>
> We will probably use RedHat 7.3 on this one as well.
>
> Regards,
> Mark
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