On 24 Oct 2002, vince cagud wrote: > dude, most probably as an ide interface, it is supported but not as a > raid device. i use promise tx2, with its proprietary drivers which > present the "raided" disks as scsi, /dev/sd* to the rest of the > operating system. > > i think jijo and ian are using 3ware escalade for ide raid, and from > what i read, they're happy about it.
You said it! I use IDE RAID-1 on my escalade, and i have two other clients on the same setup. Unlike promise/hpt it's TRUE hardware raid (not firmware RAID), and the best part is that the drivers are open source - this means you upgrade the driver as you upgrade the kernel; you're not stuck with proprietary binary only drivers which will only run in the kernel they are compiled in. Also with this card it is possible to do true hot swapping (and the system will rebuild the new disk), which is the way to go when implementing snapshot backups of your data. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
