> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Cooley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 11:10 AM
> To: Gregory Leblanc
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: New(?) IDE hardware RAID device
>
>
> At 09:08 AM 2/9/2000 -0800, you wrote:
> >ok, I feel REALLY dumb now. I guess that's what I get for
> writing email
> >after 11:00 PM.
> >http://www.ami.com/hyperdisk/hyperdisk.html
>
>
> Tiger direct sells this... they have an internal card that
> goes between the
> on board controller and 2 drives to make them HW raid-1, and
> they have one
> that fits in a 5.25" drive bay with all the electronics in
> it... Both are
> about $250.00 for the controller... you still have to supply drives.
> Kind of steep considering Linux does it in software for free,
> and there are
> only 2 drives allowed to their raid card.
True, but even with the nifty patches that RedHat has supplied, you can only
boot from RAID 1. I was thinking you could grab two cards like this, and
create RAID-0 arrays on both, and then mirror those using Linux software
RAID 1 to give you a nice RAID 10 redundant, fast drive array. It does
sound a bit expensive though...
Greg
