Lyle Schlueter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello,
I just started looking into software raid with linux a few weeks ago. I
am outgrowing the commercial NAS product that I bought a while back.
I've been learning as much as I can, suscribing to this mailing list,
reading man pages, experimenting
Lyle Schlueter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do you know of any concerns of using all the ports on a motherboard?
Slowdowns or anything like that?
More likely the opposite. But it depends on how the chips are
connected.
On desktop boards the onboard chip is in the north and/or southbridge
and has
Yes, I must have missed that. I've only been on the mailing list for a
week or so. I did go through some of the archives though. I keep my
kernel up to date, usually within a few days of a release.
The 3ware and Areca cards sound nice, but I could buy quite a few drives
for the price of those
Hello,
I just started looking into software raid with linux a few weeks ago. I
am outgrowing the commercial NAS product that I bought a while back.
I've been learning as much as I can, suscribing to this mailing list,
reading man pages, experimenting with loopback devices setting up and
expanding
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 15:51 +1300, Richard Scobie wrote:
Lyle Schlueter wrote:
Are there any 4+ port PCI-e SATA controllers cards?
Hi Lyle,
I've been doing a similar exercise here and have been looking at
portmultiplier options using the Silicon Image 3124.
Is a port multiplier a
You've probably missed a discussion on issues I've been having with
SATA, software RAID and bad drivers. A clear thing from the responses
I got is that you really need to use a recent kernel, as they may have
fixed those problems.
I didn't get clear responses indicating specific cards that are
