RE: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ?
I think the 1200 uses the HPT37x chip and the 2400 uses the DPT chip. http://www.noticias3d.com/articulos/200204/1200/imagenes/placa_delante.jpg http://graphics.adaptec.com/ata_2400a_600x305.jpg The 2400A is a microprocessor-based RAID card. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Randall J. Parr Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 12:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ? I am not sure of the AHA1200. I have systems using the AHA2400 (4 channel) They have worked just fine in Red Hat systems since about RH 7.3. I'm currently running them in Red Hat 8 systems with 4 x 60G IBM drives RAID 5 without problems. I also have one running in a W2K system. Performance is quite reasonable. My systems with Mylex SCSI RAID perform better but they also cost about three times as much. R.Parr, RHCE Temporal Arts -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ?
I am not sure of the AHA1200. I have systems using the AHA2400 (4 channel) They have worked just fine in Red Hat systems since about RH 7.3. I'm currently running them in Red Hat 8 systems with 4 x 60G IBM drives RAID 5 without problems. I also have one running in a W2K system. Performance is quite reasonable. My systems with Mylex SCSI RAID perform better but they also cost about three times as much. R.Parr, RHCE Temporal Arts -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ?
Jeff, If you have ever heard of "WinModems", let me introduce you to "WinRAID". :-) IIRC, many cheap raid cards are nothing more than an IDE controller with a raid bios. You still have to rely on the OS in order to handle up-to-the-minute raid features. Trust me, many cards including the 1200, promise cards, HPT, etc don't work the way true HW raid does. It's not true raid and you will not be happy with it. How do I know? I have a generic highpoint 37x raid card, an Adaptec 1200 and an Adaptec 2400 (which uses the DPT chip, I think). The 37x cards are totally useless... well I could always stick them in a Windows box, I guess. See here for more information: http://www.ssc.com/pipermail/linux-list/2002-January/021963.html I like software raid and true hardware raid, but these software "raid" card combos are crap. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Kinz Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 7:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ? On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:45:09PM -0600, Trevor wrote: > > Does it work... sort of. It's still a software raid card. You need the > 2400 for TRUE hardware raid. Honk? :-) A software raid card? Doesn't that kind of obviate the need for the card at all since Linux can do software raid all by itself ? Can you give me any more info about this aspect of the card? Like does it somehow speed up software RAID? > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Kinz > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:41 PM > To: RedHat List > Subject: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ? > > > Hi all > I considering putting a server together mirroring two drives > using the adaptec 1200A for a controller card. > > All the references I've seen to it on google/Linux are asking > if anyone know how to make it work, w/no tales of success. > > Does anyone know if the adaptec 1200A does work w/RH? or if there is > better choice for a hardware controller for IDE-RAID? > > Thanks. > > -- > Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an > acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. > Don't forget to change your password often. > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. Don't forget to change your password often. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ?
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:50:35PM -0400, Michael Gargiullo wrote: > Give it a shot if you ownone already, but if your going to purchase one, > we've had great success with the Mylex Acceleraid 170. Hi Michael, Thank you for your recommendation. It is appreciated. I also found out that there is an Adaptec card called the 1210SA which is a low cost board that does only raid 0 or raid 1. Cost is approx $79 - street price is lower, AFAIK, FWIW. It is for "Serial ATA", (SATA), hard drives. And, wonder of wonder's Adaptec actually has RedHat and (I believe) Suse drivers for it!. Product page is here : http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=AAR-1210SA&cat=Products Adaptec does not support the 1200/1200A on Linux at all. (boo, hiss..) Oh well - At least they support one low cost card on linux, as well as all their high cost ones. -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. Don't forget to change your password often. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ?
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:45:09PM -0600, Trevor wrote: > > Does it work... sort of. It's still a software raid card. You need the > 2400 for TRUE hardware raid. Honk? :-) A software raid card? Doesn't that kind of obviate the need for the card at all since Linux can do software raid all by itself ? Can you give me any more info about this aspect of the card? Like does it somehow speed up software RAID? > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Kinz > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:41 PM > To: RedHat List > Subject: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ? > > > Hi all > I considering putting a server together mirroring two drives > using the adaptec 1200A for a controller card. > > All the references I've seen to it on google/Linux are asking > if anyone know how to make it work, w/no tales of success. > > Does anyone know if the adaptec 1200A does work w/RH? or if there is > better choice for a hardware controller for IDE-RAID? > > Thanks. > > -- > Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an > acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. > Don't forget to change your password often. > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. Don't forget to change your password often. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ?
Give it a shot if you ownone already, but if your going to purchase one, we've had great success with the Mylex Acceleraid 170. On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 14:41, Jeff Kinz wrote: > Hi all > I considering putting a server together mirroring two drives > using the adaptec 1200A for a controller card. > > All the references I've seen to it on google/Linux are asking > if anyone know how to make it work, w/no tales of success. > > Does anyone know if the adaptec 1200A does work w/RH? or if there is > better choice for a hardware controller for IDE-RAID? > > Thanks. > > -- > Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an > acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. > Don't forget to change your password often. -- Michael Gargiullo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warp Drive Networks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ?
Does it work... sort of. It's still a software raid card. You need the 2400 for TRUE hardware raid. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Kinz Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:41 PM To: RedHat List Subject: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ? Hi all I considering putting a server together mirroring two drives using the adaptec 1200A for a controller card. All the references I've seen to it on google/Linux are asking if anyone know how to make it work, w/no tales of success. Does anyone know if the adaptec 1200A does work w/RH? or if there is better choice for a hardware controller for IDE-RAID? Thanks. -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. Don't forget to change your password often. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ?
There's no linux drivers for this model, get the 2400 instead which works great. Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 264 497-5670 Fax: 264 497-8463 www.netconcepts.ai > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Kinz > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 2:41 PM > To: RedHat List > Subject: Does Adaptec 1200A RAID work ? > > > Hi all > I considering putting a server together mirroring two drives > using the adaptec 1200A for a controller card. > > All the references I've seen to it on google/Linux are asking > if anyone know how to make it work, w/no tales of success. > > Does anyone know if the adaptec 1200A does work w/RH? or if there is > better choice for a hardware controller for IDE-RAID? > > Thanks. > > -- > Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an > acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. > Don't forget to change your password often. > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
