Get the best. Get a Mylex Raid Controller. With that you won't care who
makes the box! I'm going on 2 years of trouble free performance with
mine... and its fast! REAL fast.
http://www.mylex.com/
Jon Carnes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney Gedda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Richard Piper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "SLUG Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] RAID on linux
> 'Richard Piper' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
>
> > I am looking for/thinking about buying some machines with RAID. For
> > varios reasons it need to be a "well known" brand. The two choices at
this
> > time are the DELL 2400 and the IBM 230 series servers. My reservation
is
> > that the drier support for the RAID controllers seems to be distribution
> > specific, particular with the DELL, suggesting that specific patches are
> > required. I get the impression if I had problems or moved to a new
> > distribution that the RAID drivers may be a problem and that it may be
> > more reliable to just go for a SCSI controller and good backup.
> > I would be grateful for any suggestions, particularly if anyone has had
> > problems with any of the IBM / DELL machines and linux.
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> bash$ uptime
> 9:44pm up 256 days, 5:08, 13 users, load average: 1.00, 1.01, 1.00
>
> No complaints here...
>
> Red Hat 6.2 on a Dell 2400 including RAID array.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Rod
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