Re: ATA Raid for RHEL

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:26:23 GMT

Michael Heiming wrote:
> 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>:
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> [..]
>
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>>>What is the reason for spending the money on RHEL and then using
>>>some unsupported cheapo ATA controller?
>>>
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>
>>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.
>
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>>>>This is my question, what is a good ATA Raid card for RHEL. I want
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> [..]
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>>>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".;)
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>>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.
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>
> 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.
>

I wish I could do SCSI.... This is replacing a 10 year old Novell 3.12
box though... so it should be an improvement no matter what I do.

Dean

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