Hello list,
Tom Rauschenbach's question about lotsa IDE drives reminded me of a question
I've been meaning to poll the list about.
Does anyone here have any experience with ATA or IDE RAID cards,
specifically under Linux? (For an example, check out the Promise
(http://www.promise.com) FastTrak line.) It is an option we are considering
for some of our customers who want to build a budget system but would still
like to have mirrored drives. I'm not even after hotswap; all I want is
something that will keep the system running long enough to schedule downtime
for a replacement if a single drive crashes.
Promise claims to have Linux support, but their information is a little
sketchy. More importantly, marketing drivel != real-world performance.
(For any fellow SCSI zealots like me: I'm well aware of the limitations of
IDE. These people are going to be using IDE regardless, so I would at least
like to give them the option of drive mirroring.)
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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Net Technologies, Inc. <http://www.ntisys.com>
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