I am setting up a machine to act as an LTSP server for my church. I have a stack of old IDE hard drives that I want to use in a RAID configuration. The server's case has plenty of room for drives and a number of PCI expansion slots. I would like to get two PCI IDE controller cards to connect all the drives with. The server has an IDE CD-ROM, leaving 3 open slots in the on-board controllers. If I get two more cards (eah with two connectors), I should be able to connect 8 more hard drives.
I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting up software RAID and this is an older server with older drives. I have experience with certain Promise cards under Linux (and I am not happy with that experience). Personally, I am just looking to find out what cards people are using and how happy/unhappy they are with said cards. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
