Raid Cards Experiences -- PLEASE!

[nathan r. hruby]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, James Applebaum wrote:

> Looking to replace my Jack Hammer card (not supported) with  a Card  
> that YD Linux will work with... Does anyone have any experience with?...
> Found a deal on a Raid Card at  
> http://www.pcconnection.com/scripts/ 
> productdetail.asp?sku=160014&SourceID=k15506 for
> $11.94 --- an amazing price if it works?
> 

I think with YDL you'll have trouble finding a RAID *card* that will have 
acceptable drivers that will fit into a PPC.  (You'll either find endian 
issues with the drivers, bus incompatibility, or the need for x86 BIOS 
and possibly x86 management tools.)  If anyone knows of something, please 
share I'd be interested as well.

That said Linux's software RAID is quite capable, just add drives to fast 
controllers and you're set.  (A few adaptec 2160's and some 7200 RPM 
drives should do the trick nicely)

Also, any external RAID array with onboard controller should "just work"  
as a SCSI device.  Medea's products are a little spendy but have great
thoughput and their Intallation manual has sections for Win9x, NT, 2k,
MacOS and linux.  I have a 4 disk VideoRaidRT that has performed really
well - the speed is quite impressive under both 2k and MacOS9.

-n
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