Re: SATA RAID 1 - which controller to pick?

From: v8625 (v8625_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/04/04 

Date: 3 Jul 2004 22:20:45 -0700

Well, I did a fall-back to 2.4.20-8 (RedHat 9.0) and got it to work. I
don't mount it automatically during boot since I only need it when the
backup jobs run. So all that raidstart, mount, unmount, raidstop, etc.
is done in the backup script. I didn't do any specific I/O testing,
but a couple of small backup jobs that I ran on it appeared to go
rather fast. Basically, it does the job for this specific task.
Unfortunately, I can't really say anything very intelligent about
running this 1210SA controller under Windows because I never tried it
under Windows. But one thing I would certainly double-check would be
if it's sitting in the PCI slot with its own IRQ or if it's sharing
that IRQ with something else..

rmon90223@hotmail.com (Revo) wrote in message news:<d285a739.0407012000.164f1d98@posting.google.com>...
> They would not even let me see their i/o benchmark figures, let alone
> release their source code for a driver, god forbid!
>
> BTW, I restarted testing the Adaptec 1210SA on freaking Windows.
> Because I could not get the Redhat driver working, and the Suse driver
> doesn't seem to work at all. Their Windows XP driver works perfectly,
> of course, after a full day and a half of IOMeter and no mishaps. But
> we thought against putting a Windows XP server in production, so we're
> testing Windows 2000 Server with their newest driver now.
>
> I noticed this started happening in the last 2 days of testing on this
> 1210SA card.. when I do a warm-boot (ctrl-alt-del) or hardware reset
> button, the 1210SA appears to hang during the bootup. If I do a total
> power off/on, then it initializes.
>
> Do you get this problem?? I don't recall it happening originally
> during my Redhat testing phase.