Re: Hardware RAID
I must have missed this the first time around, but we just went with
hardware raid solution as well. We installed the ICP-Vortex card, we paid
about $590 or so for it from www.thelinuxstore.com with 32MB of RAM. It
takes standard PC100 SDRAM. The card comes with linux drivers, and linux
software so you can actually setup the RAID settings REMOTELY! That's
right, you can do it from a telnet/ssh window if you want to, anything
that supports ncurses...
www.icp-vortex.com is the address, so far, we havent had any issues with
it, and it works as advertised.
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Nick Jennings wrote:
|
| I know its been some time since this post, im primarily responding
| for the archives, maybe someone will find the info usefulll..
|
| i was looking for the exact same thing, an inexpensive hardware RAID
| controller. (something in the hundreds of dollars as apposed to the
| thousands). What i wfound was the AAA-13x card, its an adaptec hardware
| raid. and i looked on the hardware compatability list and it was listed
| etc. however...
|
| I got the card working, booted up off its cmos disk to flash
| the cards rom with the settings, and set it up as a RAID-1 ( i had
| 2 26 gig drives and just wanted mirroring). and the card was detected
| and all i had no problems as far as that was concerned and I even
| saw as i was installing debian both drives were active when it was
| installing to just the first drive "great" i thought. but the more i
| read the manual and stuff the more it seemed like in order to restore
| the secondary drive to use as a primary (if the original primary failed) was
| to use their proprietary windows software to rebuild the array. the disk
| they provide to setup the array (that you boot off) didnt have any
| rebuild features. so when it came down to it... i realized i could not
| use the hardware raid without the software program utilities.
|
| the cost was about the price of two adaptec 2940's and in the end. i ended
| up removing the array completely, and using the controller as just a
| scsi controller and wasting the RAID features. so now i have two drives.
| and i dd'd the contents of th first to the second.. and run a script
| that diffs the specified files that i want to back up and overwrites
| the newer file onto the second hard drive whenever its been updated.
| so if there is a problem with the first drive, i can just put the
| secondary in the primary slot and boot right up on it no problem.
| kind of a hacked raid-1 i guess. it works good and i dont have to worry
| about rebuilding arrays or whatever.
|
| hope this helps someone about to make the same mistake, or maybe someone
| has had bette rluck with the same card, if so please tell me all about it!
|
|
| On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 08:15:13AM -0600, elyograg wrote:
| > I've been looking through kernel readme files, and trying to find a
| > hardware RAID solution that will run under Debian. It seems that all of
| > the RAID hardware that is supported in the 2.2 kernel is either very very
| > expensive, or impossible to find. The controllers that are affordable,
| > aren't supported. I did briefly look at the 2.3 kernel, but there didn't
| > seem to be any additional support.
| >
| > We're planning to go with 5-7 U2W drives in a level 5 array, probably
| > sticking with 7200 RPM. The 160Mb standard on 10,000 RPM drives would be
| > very nice, but the price increases are staggering. We'll try to find the
| > current pricing sweet spot and purchase drives at that capacity. We don't
| > need the full redundant power, hot swappable setup - our concern is speed
| > and reliability. If we have to take it down because of a hardware failure,
| > we're OK with that. :)
| >
| > Does anyone have any recommendations for a hardware RAID controller with a
| > good combination of price and Linux support, and at least one supplier who
| > carries it?
| >
| > I know I can do software RAID, and this idea hasn't been completely
| > discounted, but I'm very interested in the potential for just letting the
| > hardware take care of it. The only case I know of with software RAID
| > (level 1) was difficult to work with, as it was extremely slow to
| > fsck/rebuild if there were any problems. Anyone have any other horror or
| > success stories with either hardware or software RAID to share?
| >
| > If we go the software route, would there be any issue with simply getting
| > something like the Adaptec 2940U2W? Any other solid recommendations, and
| > reasoning to support the choice?
| >
| > Thanks,
| > Shawn
| >
| >
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