Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 10:54:38PM > -0800: > > > > IIRC, it was a Sun T300. I know that it was a beta name, and got changed > > to T3 or something. > > Ah, okay. Big-system stuff. > > I don't think I was looking at the $10k and up stuff at the time. > Perhaps that was my mistake.
Only if you wanted something that high-end. > > The RAID cards that I am using now don't require any host OS driver. You > > configure it by hitting F3 during the boot process, and managing that > > way. However, there is no way to know if a particular disk is suffering > > degradation unless your host system has the proper driver. > > That's what blinkenlights are for. :) When all you have are drive activity lights, in a server, in an unoccupied room, in a building, in another state: not to useful. Even when it is in the same room as yourself, you really need the logging and reporting. > > I forget the exact model number, but these are 3Ware SATA RAID cards. > > ...as in a controller card that plugs into a slot? Yes. > Wouldn't a driver still be needed? Not for the RAID. It installs its own BIOS, and exposes the RAID as you have set up as individual SATA devices. Say if you have eight drives, and take two drives and make them a RAID-1, and the remaining six as RAID-5, the host OS would see /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. If, instead, you made for pairs of RAID-0, you'd have /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd. I think that is pretty much what you are wishing for, correct? -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
