On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> Could anyone who's doing hardware RAID on their SMP boxen please email me
> with your experiences? We're considering the DPT PM3754U2 but it's I20
> based and I thought that I20 was not fully supported by Linux yet. DPT has
> their own drivers posted on their site but I was hoping for code that had
> been peer reviewed. This is going to be a production system so stability
> is key.
I'm running software RAID on an SMP box. board is ASUS XG-DLS with
on-board dual channel Adaptec SCSI bus. I have 2 (18Gb, IBM) drives on
each bus in a RAID 5 configuration. It just works. Kernel is 2.2.6,
distribution is Debian 2.1. I can't see why hardware RAID would be a
problem if the device just presents a single SCSI interface to you.
I never really got a chance to see how much faster the machine is with 2
processors vs. 1 processor at handing the RAID before I put it into
production - maybe one wet rainy weekend I'll have a play with it.
Gordon
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