I use that exact board with the same setup. The RAID1 on it is not true
RAID, so I use the Linux Software RAID to set up two RAID1 arrays of 2
drives each (i need two separate physical arrays for my purposes).
It works well, and performance is good. Debian Sarge with the 2.6 kernel
detects all hardware nicely. I recommend that setup.
- Naz
Francesco Pietra wrote:
i intend to setup a workstation for quantum mechanical calculations
(organic chemistry) with a couple of amd64 dualcore 265 and a couple
of STA hard disks 360GB raid 1 (mirroring for security reasons).
Do you think that mainboard Tyan Thunder S2877ANDF x 2 Dual Opteron
under debian testing/unstable provides adequate raid 1 support without
going to expensive 3ware products? I plan to have 2GB ram, but that is
not enough for the calculations and frequent access to disk occurs.
Remember that i am based in italy where the market is under rigid
control by whom you can easily imagine so that it is not easy to get
what one wants (for example main boards). i am happy when i meet a
handler who follows my linux requests, most do not.
thanks for answering
Francesco Pietra