No. I believe this Perc card is not supported under Linux. Only the 16Mb Perc S2 is supported. Single-channel. This comes from the Dell rep I was talking to last week. John Leach -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, March 13, 2000 7:17 AM Subject: Re: PCI Based RAID Controller for Linux Suggestions? >On 9 Mar, List User wrote: >[clip] >> 1) has a minimum of 2 (preferred 3+) seperate scsi channels >> BOTH internal and externally usuable. >> >> 2) Can handle LVD & Ultra 3 devices >> >> 3) Has good support under Linux, and not just RedHat. (We roll >> our own distributions here so anything with kernel support >> or a driver add-in et al). >> >> 4) Has good high-end performance that would be able to handle >> lots of random seeks (read/write) under RAID5. (one primary >> system would be for a RAID5 news spool). >[snip] > >I've got a Dell PERC2 with four U3 channels and 128MB cache. Looks like >a nice card, but we use software RAID exclusively. Dell just shipped it >inside one of our servers by accident I suppose. They've done the same >with other "extra" hardware in the past. Maybe I'll pop it in a box and >see if I can't get some benchmarks. I think it MAY be RedHat-only >though, judging Dell's close relationship with them... >-- > Jeremy Stanley, Network Engineer, IT Consultant > /*=---- http://www.k4d4th.org/~rcarter -----=*\ > | Mathematic Algorithm Design (MAD) Scientist | > | CTHULHU FHTAGN Project, Crawling Chaos Labs | > \*=--------- http://www.k4d4th.org ---------=*/ > Kibo ran off with my spleen, sporks AND Cesium. > >
