Re: Setting up RAID
hi ya
for hardware or software raid... make sure it works properly...
- pull the ide cable on one disk - see if you can boot from the
other and vice versa
- add a new virgin disk and see if it will resync all by itself
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for hardware ide raid, if its not listed here, you might wanna think twice
about other hardware (ata) raid controllers
- you'd be doing the testing .. :-)
http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html
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iirc, fastrack is promise' attempt at a hardware raid cotnroller ( dont
bother )
-- worst still, dont even try the onboard raid w/ any of the
motherboards
ultra133 or ultra100 ( $30 or less ) works great for software raid...
dell and hp's hw ata raid controllers seem to be okay... but you pay for
it too and they like to change "versions"
more raid stuff -- like raid commands
http://www.1U-Raid5.net/HowTo/Commands.uhow2.txt
have fun
alvin
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, martin f krafft said:
> > I am looking to install a new rack server this coming weekend, and
> > since I don't really want to worry about backups to revive a dead
> > system (data backups are done over the network), I am looking into a
> > RAID 1 configuration.
> >
> > I am currently in the process to decide between software and hardware
> > RAID. Linux has a full RAID system built in, and yet there are RAID
> > controllers one can buy. Why would I choose to pay money and get
> > a hardware controller?
>
> It appears that hardware raid (from what google turned up just now - I'd
> investigate further before taking my advice (^8 ) is slightly slower,
> but more robust, and uses less clock cycles to run. I guess an analogy
> would be winmodems using the OS to perform what can be (should be?) a
> hardware function.
>
> > Also, since I can't find anything on http://lhd.zdnet.com/, do any of
> > you have positive or negative things to say about the following RAID
> > controllers and Debian GNU/Linux?
> >
> > - Adaptec 1200A Raid
> > - Promise FastTrak133TX2000 UDMA/133 Raid
> > - Promise Ultra133TX2 UDMA/133
> > - DawiControl DC-133 Raid
>
> Can't help you here - google isn't returning much.
>
> Steve
>
> --
> "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."
> -- Steven Wright
>
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