Re: ATA Raid for RHEL

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:35:04 +0200

In alt.os.linux.redhat Dean Landry <dlandry@cs.dal.ca>:
> I'm looking to upgrade a Redhat 9 box to RHEL (amazing pricing for
> academic institutions). My problem is our MegaRAID ATA-133 card is not
> supported by RHEL and the vendor produces no binary drivers for RHEL.
> This will be a production box, so I will not even attempt to use self
> compiled drivers :) After talking to LSILogic (they make the card), I'm
> told they don't really intend to product drivers for RHEL at this point.

What is the reason for spending the money on RHEL and then using
some unsupported cheapo ATA controller?

> This is my question, what is a good ATA Raid card for RHEL. I want
> something reasonably priced (which is why we're going ATA instead of
> SCSI). I also want something that is well supported under RHEL and
> other distros.

3ware controller are fully supported and work like a charm, dunno
what you call "reasonably priced", 3ware isn't really cheap, but
the can be called "reasonably priced".;)

Good luck 

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