--On March 15, 2006 4:25:26 PM +0000 Cian Davis <davisc@skynet.ie> wrote:
Hi Ronny, Which modules do you use for the 3Ware controllers and the Areca controllers? Any experience with the 9550 series? Does the driver allow access to each disk on the controller (/dev/sda type access) or only defined RAID arrays? We need a SATA RAID solution but we want the drivers to be in the current sarge release. Maintaining extra manually compiled modules would just be a pain. We don't have a problem using software RAID but the OCE capabilities of both the 3Ware and Areca controllers is very nice.
OCE? Not familiar with that term....I'm going to guess you mean Online Configuration or something, the 3Ware controllers are not. You can replace hotspares/etc, but you can't create, destroy, or otherwise maintain arrays in an online mode. ICP (now owned by Intel) makes cards that are capable of this...but I don't know if gdth (their driver) is in the stock kernel or not offhand. It seems to me it was/is, I'm running sarge on a machine of my own using an old GDT6528RS card.