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Re: Debian and IDE RAID?



Danijel Pajur said:
> Hi everybody!
>
> The time has come to upgrade my trusty old Debian box, and I\'ve started
> looking  into getting an affordable IDE RAID solution. Searching the web
> for various IDE  RAID controllers and Linux revealed lots of problems,
> most of which I\'d assume  are related to the actual hardware, or lack
> thereof.
>
> I know times change, and I\'m wondering if anyone could advise me if
> there\'s an  IDE RAID controller out there that works well with Debian, in
> RAID1 (mirror)  mode? Or would I be better off just scrapping the idea,
> and going with single  drives or software RAID?

if your just interested in raid1, I would say scrap it and go with
software raid. linux can boot directly off software raid 1 array if
you want, it takes some work to get it setup, but it works good I have
several systems in this configuration

nate





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