Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Pol Hallen de...@fuckaround.org wrote: Hi folks! I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this cheap hardware? What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? Sil3114 is NOT hardware RAID. It is fakeRAID.

Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/25/2013 3:09 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Pol Hallen de...@fuckaround.org wrote: Hi folks! I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this cheap hardware? What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? Sil3114

cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-24 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi folks! I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this cheap hardware? What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? No need speed... only reliable of datas thanks! Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/05/13 05:08 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi folks! I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this cheap hardware? What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? No need speed... only reliable of datas thanks! Pol I think most of us prefer

Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-24 Thread Dom
On 24/05/13 22:08, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi folks! I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this cheap hardware? What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? No need speed... only reliable of datas I've been using Sil3114 based cards in two of my

Re: HW Raid

2010-02-17 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Wed, 17/2/10, Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au wrote: Hi Thanks for all the input. I did some more research on the high point and even though it talks about smartctl it doesn't actually get you through to each device. I have now started to look at the adaptec 51245, 3 x sas

Re: HW Raid

2010-02-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 01:27:41PM +, Glyn Astill wrote: --- On Wed, 17/2/10, Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au wrote: Hi [snip] We're using Adaptec 5805's here, not sure on the situation now, but I had to run the storman client through alien to get it installed on debian - but it

RE: HW Raid

2010-02-16 Thread James Wu
Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Camaleón Sent: February 15, 2010 5:25 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: HW Raid On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:15:43 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: (...) What I am looking at is the ability to monitor the array from within linux

Re: HW Raid

2010-02-16 Thread Alex Samad
...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Camaleón Sent: February 15, 2010 5:25 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: HW Raid On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:15:43 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: (...) What I am looking at is the ability to monitor the array from within linux, sort of like mdadm does

Re: HW Raid

2010-02-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:15:43 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: (...) What I am looking at is the ability to monitor the array from within linux, sort of like mdadm does, so that if/when a drive goes faulty I will be notified. I would also like to be able to use smartctl on the individual drives so I

HW Raid

2010-02-14 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am looking at buying a hardware raid controller, I have been an advocate of software raid for quite a while, but having run into some problems running a 10 disk home server, I figure its time to bit the bullet and buy a good/nice card. What I am looking at is the ability to monitor the

Re: HW Raid

2010-02-14 Thread Victor Padro
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au wrote: Hi I am looking at buying a hardware raid controller, I have been an advocate of software raid for quite a while, but having run into some problems running a 10 disk home server, I figure its time to bit the bullet and buy

Installing Debian Etch on hw RAID 1 on nvidia nForce 430i

2007-07-06 Thread csanyipal
about installing a GNU/Linux system on hw RAID 1 out there. Can I install Etch on this nvidia hardware RAID 1, or perhaps should I to install Etch with software RAID 1 on these two SATA disk? Any advices will be appreciated! [1] http://www.ram.org/computing/linux/dpt_raid.html -- Regards, Paul

Re: Installing Debian Etch on hw RAID 1 on nvidia nForce 430i

2007-07-06 Thread Thias
RAID [1] but can't find in there description about installing a GNU/Linux system on hw RAID 1 out there. Can I install Etch on this nvidia hardware RAID 1, or perhaps should I to install Etch with software RAID 1 on these two SATA disk? Any advices will be appreciated! [1] http

Re: Installing Debian Etch on hw RAID 1 on nvidia nForce 430i

2007-07-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
recognize the RAID 1 BIOS setup during the installation? No. See above. I find on the internet documentation about hardware RAID [1] but can't find in there description about installing a GNU/Linux system on hw RAID 1 out there. See above. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Looking for a Branded server with HW Raid support in Debian

2006-08-23 Thread Rishi
Hi I plan on using Debian Server in my office but to prevent downtime, I wanted to use a Branded server like IBM, Dell or HP with RAID-1 mirroring hotswap drives. Has anyone had experience with them and could make a recommendation on which model to buy? I had bought an IBM server last

HW raid 0 setup

2002-10-24 Thread Kevin Coyner
I'm trying to setup a Raid0 using a SCSI LSI Raid controller card and four 9G SCSI drives. The intent is to have two drives (sda and sdb), both of which use Raid0. During POST I can get into the controller bios and set it up for Raid0. I then continue on with the normal boot process, which

Re: HW raid 0 setup

2002-10-24 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:02:41AM -0700, nate wrote.. Kevin Coyner said: SCSI device sda: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) SCSI device sdb: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) Is this correct? Since I'm setting this up as Raid0, shouldn't sda and sdb be half

Re: HW raid 0 setup

2002-10-24 Thread nate
Kevin Coyner said: SCSI device sda: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) SCSI device sdb: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) Is this correct? Since I'm setting this up as Raid0, shouldn't sda and sdb be half that size at 8984MB each? Or is it typical of Raid0 to report the

Re: HW raid 0 setup

2002-10-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kevin Coyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.10.24.1654 +0200]: SCSI device sda: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) SCSI device sdb: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) Is this correct? Since I'm setting this up as Raid0, shouldn't sda and sdb be half that size at 8984MB

Re: HW raid 0 setup

2002-10-24 Thread Chris Hilts
Is this correct? Since I'm setting this up as Raid0, shouldn't sda and sdb be half that size at 8984MB each? Or is it typical of Raid0 to report the combined size of the two drives it uses for striping? Speaking of hardware RAID, I've set up a RAID-1 (mirroring) array on my server.