Re: Linux friendly hardware RAID card in Israel

2007-04-16 Thread Marc Volovic
On Monday 16 April 2007 03:08, Arieh Skliarouk quoth:
 Hi,

LSI Logic have multiple models. From 150-4 (4 SATA-1 ports) to 300-8X (8 
SATA-2 ports).

I am using an LSI 150-6 (6 SATA-1 ports) and it can be installed 
transparently. The later models (3xx) have RAID 0,1,5,6,1+0 and 10. The 
earlier models lack RAID6.

 Can anyone recommend me Linux friendly hardware RAID card with following
 features:

- Available for purchase from Israel company or reseller
- SATA support for 4 drives or more
- Open source driver included in latests 2.6 kernel
- Must support true HW RAID[0,1,5] raid, when BIOS and Linux see only
single disk (unlike Promise cards).
- Consequence of previous two requirements: debian 4.0 can install
itself onto the RAID (configured from BIOS), out-of-the-box.
- hot-swap is not necessary, the system can be powered off for
maintenance sometimes.

 Thank you in advance!

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Re: Linux friendly hardware RAID card in Israel

2007-04-16 Thread Dan Bar Dov

I have used RAIDCore cards (then Broadcom). Purchased from Excellnet.
I used 8 port cards, and the beauty is that since they do software
raid, you can combine up to 4 controllers and created a 32 drives RAID
array (16TB with 500GB SATA disks ). The driver is not open-source,
but they provide drivers for the latest disributions, plus a kit that
lets you link their driver to unsupported kernels. I don't think you
can install debian out of the box ion them. If that's what you want, I
suggest you check what drivers Debian pack in, and choose that way - I
believe LSI logic would work out of the [debian] box, and probably
3ware as well.

Good luck
Dan

On 4/16/07, Arieh Skliarouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

Can anyone recommend me Linux friendly hardware RAID card with following
features:

Available for purchase from Israel company or reseller
SATA support for 4 drives or more
Open source driver included in latests 2.6 kernel

Must support true HW RAID[0,1,5] raid, when BIOS and Linux see only single
disk (unlike Promise cards).
Consequence of previous two requirements: debian 4.0 can install itself onto
the RAID (configured from BIOS), out-of-the-box.
hot-swap is not necessary, the system can be powered off for maintenance
sometimes.Thank you in advance!
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Linux friendly hardware RAID card in Israel

2007-04-15 Thread Arieh Skliarouk

Hi,

Can anyone recommend me Linux friendly hardware RAID card with following
features:

  - Available for purchase from Israel company or reseller
  - SATA support for 4 drives or more
  - Open source driver included in latests 2.6 kernel
  - Must support true HW RAID[0,1,5] raid, when BIOS and Linux see only
  single disk (unlike Promise cards).
  - Consequence of previous two requirements: debian 4.0 can install
  itself onto the RAID (configured from BIOS), out-of-the-box.
  - hot-swap is not necessary, the system can be powered off for
  maintenance sometimes.

Thank you in advance!
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Arieh