Jeff, If you have ever heard of "WinModems", let me introduce you to "WinRAID". :-)
IIRC, many cheap raid cards are nothing more than an IDE controller with a raid bios. You still have to rely on the OS in order to handle up-to-the-minute raid features. Trust me, many cards including the 1200, promise cards, HPT, etc don't work the way true HW raid does. It's not true raid and you will not be happy with it. How do I know? I have a generic highpoint 37x raid card, an Adaptec 1200 and an Adaptec 2400 (which uses the DPT chip, I think). The 37x cards are totally useless... well I could always stick them in a Windows box, I guess. See here for more information: http://www.ssc.com/pipermail/linux-list/2002-January/021963.html I like software raid and true hardware raid, but these software "raid" card combos are crap. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Kinz Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 7:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ? On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:45:09PM -0600, Trevor wrote: > > Does it work... sort of. It's still a software raid card. You need the > 2400 for TRUE hardware raid. Honk? :-) A software raid card? Doesn't that kind of obviate the need for the card at all since Linux can do software raid all by itself ? Can you give me any more info about this aspect of the card? Like does it somehow speed up software RAID? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Kinz > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:41 PM > To: RedHat List > Subject: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ? > > > Hi all > I considering putting a server together mirroring two drives > using the adaptec 1200A for a controller card. > > All the references I've seen to it on google/Linux are asking > if anyone know how to make it work, w/no tales of success. > > Does anyone know if the adaptec 1200A does work w/RH? or if there is > better choice for a hardware controller for IDE-RAID? > > Thanks. > > -- > Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an > acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. > Don't forget to change your password often. > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. Don't forget to change your password often. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
