On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, James Deptuck wrote:
> Does anyone have any experiences with particular hardware raid controlers
> that they'd be willing to share?
> What's the most reliable controler?
I have experience with the DPT 3334 in several production servers.
It may not be the fastest hardware RAID controller (at least it doesn't
benchmark as well as some others), but it is very reliable. The real
downside is the inability to administer it from Linux - you have to boot DOS
to run their administrative software (to create the ranks, manage them after
disk failure, etc).
I have suffered disk and cabling failures, and the DPT has always kept me
going right through them.
> We would like to put the root partition on raid (everything raided).
> What problems arise from that? Will linux support that easily with this
> card?
One of the biggest advantages of hardware RAID is that Linux (LILO, or
whatever) doesn't *know* it's RAID. The RAID controller BIOS makes it look
like any other bootable SCSI disk, so you just boot from it... no black
magic needed.
-Andy
