On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:37:02PM -0400, Erik Karlin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:25:06PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Quoting Josh Battles <josh.lists@omg-stfu.com>: > > > > >Roberto C. Sanchez said: > > >> > > >>I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting > > >>up > > >>software RAID and this is an older server with older drives. I have > > >>experience > > >>with certain Promise cards under Linux (and I am not happy with that > > >>experience). Personally, I am just looking to find out what cards > > >>people > > >>are > > >>using and how happy/unhappy they are with said cards. > > > > I've got two of these: > http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16815104214 > > just plugged them in and they worked. running sarge 2.4.27. I'm using my > internal ports with 1 drive on one, and a drive + dvdrom on the other. > the others all have one drive on each. i've got a 6 drive raid10 system > all with 250g drives. I've read that you shouldn't use slave drives with > software raid. everything is a master (except the dvd which is a slave, > but hardly used) > I got 2 of these and they are working quite nicely. The kernel recognized it right off the bat and the drives showed up as hde, hdf and hdg. Thanks for the pointer. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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