Re: looking for a transparent hardware RAID controller for debian
On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 07:52 -0800, David Kirchner wrote:
> On 11/9/05, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > Last week on the list someone mentioned possible problems with
> > the 3ware 9xxx cards and newer kernels. Maybe it's been resolved,
> > maybe not.
>
> Yeah, someone was having trouble with kernel panic -- the VFS cannot
> mount root one indicating that the card wasn't being recognized by the
> kernel. Haven't heard if he got it resolved or not, though. I can
> personally confirm that the 2.6 kernel can see 9xxx series cards, at
> least the 9500S-12:
>
> # uname -a
> Linux raid 2.6.13.2 #1 SMP Fri Sep 30 16:42:38 PDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
> # ./tw_cli info
>
> Ctl Model Ports Drives Units NotOpt RRate VRate BBU
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> c0 9500S-12 12 12 1 0 4 4 OK
> c1 9500S-12 12 12 1 0 4 4 OK
The issue was performance, though. Are you getting good speed?
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