Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian
Jason Lim wrote:
>
> Well, since no one has said it yet, I'll chip in...
>
> We've have great results by using 3ware cards. Their drivers are fully
> open source, and are available as part of the source kernel
> as well, so
> you don't have to wait for the right drivers to come out for
> a particular
> kernel release (very annoying when the kernel is waaaay ahead of their
> binary driver releases)
>
> I don't know about the price, but when we were considering
> all the various
> RAID cards, 3ware's price was approximately the same as those from
> Promise. If Promise's cards were significantly cheaper, our
> decision might
> have been different, but as is, the 3ware cards won out :-)
>
> Sincerely,
> Jas
>
> "Jesse Molina" wrote:
>
> >
> > I honestly regret to say the same, but it's true. Promise cards are
> > great under an MS Windows OS, but not GNU/Linux. It's the driver
> issues.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thomas Kirk wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:02:21PM +1000, Brad Lay wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>I'd stay well clear of promise if you want it to work
> under Debian.
> > >
> > >
> > > I would like to support that statement. Ive had nothing
> but trouble
> > > with promise under debian :(
> > >
> >
Some of our clients use the Promise 20286R with success with Debian. But my
personal impression is: If you have the choice, go with 3ware. Their card
design is superb, 3ware cards are definitly the best IDE Raid controllers
when it comes to Linux support.
Just my 2c,
Thomas
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Thomas Lamy Thomas.Lamy@netwake.de
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