Re: ATA Raid for RHEL

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

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    In alt.os.linux.redhat Dean Landry <dlandry@cs.dal.ca>:
    > Michael Heiming wrote:
    >> In alt.os.linux.redhat Dean Landry <dlandry@cs.dal.ca>:
    [..]

    >> 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.

    Ah, see, that makes sense.

    >>>This is my question, what is a good ATA Raid card for RHEL. I want
    [..]

    >> 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.

    Ops, looks like I mixed up ATA/SATA. I'm running SATA on a 3ware
    controller on the box I'm currently typing. Works pretty good on
    a workstation, for a server with real I/O, I'd use SCSI only. 

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