Re: ATA Raid for RHEL

From: Dean Landry (dlandry_at_cs.dal.ca)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:41:43 GMT

Michael Heiming wrote:
> 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?
>

To save money. We're a private school, so we have little money to spend
on hardware. We get RHEL AS for $50US.

>
>>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".;)

I looked at 3Ware, but they don't indicate any support for ATA (PATA,
that is) support in RHEL (only Redhat 9 end below). If I spent the
money on a SATA controller and drives, there seem to be many options.

>
> Good luck
>

Thanks!

Dean

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