>
>Agreed. I have three systems right now that are fully RAIDed, one a
>high use server, a personal server, and my personal workstation, all of
>which use software raid, one of which uses a PCI-IDE card (promise
>tx-2000 or something) to add the extra channels that are needed.
I use one of Promi
> Note that the TX4 "RAID" card, is essentially a *software* raid card
> (i.e. glorified IDE controller). There is very few true IDE raid card
> with support under linux. 3ware and ARCO DupliDisk are the only ones.
> http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html
>
> -Ross
Do you mean by that that the pdc
It turns out that for some reason mkreiserfs only allocated 60G on my 120G
Raid array. I rebooted on my 1.4 LiveCD and attempted to debug_reiserfs my
array, but wound up getting a screen full of I/O errors on one of my drives
(the first one of the array). I suspect it's not actually the drive, but
>
> > Note that the TX4 "RAID" card, is essentially a *software* raid card
> > (i.e. glorified IDE controller). There is very few true IDE raid card
> > with support under linux. 3ware and ARCO DupliDisk are the only ones.
> > http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html
> >
> > -Ross
>
> Do you mean b
>It turns out that for some reason mkreiserfs only allocated
>60G on my 120G
>Raid array. I rebooted on my 1.4 LiveCD and attempted to
>debug_reiserfs my
>array, but wound up getting a screen full of I/O errors on one
>of my drives
>(the first one of the array). I suspect it's not actually the
> My only regret is that I'll no longer be using the RAID card to its full
> extent. However, I've also read some interesting opinions that talk about
> how a low-end RAID card (such as the tx4) can be a bottleneck on higher-end
> systems. Mine's a dual-mp 1.4Ghz (1600+) configuration. Such opinion
> I've had good luck with Linux software raid arrays. It's so
> durn easy, I don't see any reason to bother with the low end
> RAID cards. (The more expensive cards can offer advantages
> not otherwise available.)
Agreed. I have three systems right now that are fully RAIDed, one a
high use serv
