> Jussi Silvennoinen wrote: > >> I'm looking for suggestions for a hardware SCSI RAID controller > >> similar in features to an Adaptec 2010S. One that is known to work > >> well with Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 and 4 without requiring external > >> drivers or custom kernels and is actively being sold. > > > For very high speed single/few thread sequental work, in my experience > > Areca kicks butt like no other. Choosing xfs over ext3 improves the > > experience still. Their newest cards are SAS-controllers, so SATA-only > > days are gone. > > We use Areca controllers in some instances (the work is largely > sequential access of large files). Out of curiosity, have the Areca > drivers made it into the kernels released with RHE 5? I don't think > they have a SCSI controller (excluding SAS).
Not yet, perhaps in 5.1 or 5.2 release. > In this particular case, we are looking for a SCSI RAID controller to > replace an existing controller and intend to continue to use the > existing SCSI drives. We've had driver issues in RHE 5 with the > Adaptec 2010S and were hoping to find a replacement card that would > just work with the kernels/drivers provided with the release. Mind sharing what was your trouble with it? My rhel5 installation server is built on a 2010S. -- Jussi _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
