I wouldn't use any of the Hardware Raid solutions from adaptec. I had a horrible card earlier in the year (I cant remember the exact model but it was the most expensive SCSI hardware raid fro mthem ) It was completely useless under Linux. Stable for at most 4 hours!
IF you want hardware raid under Linux i can recommend mylex cards. On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 15:11, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Jeff Waugh"> > > > <quote who="Stewart"> > > > > > A client is looking at buying a Dell server with Adaptec hardware RAID5 on > > > board, on which I'm planning to install Mandrake 8.2. Just looking for a > > > heads up on this - any caveats or warnings or whatever? > > > > Shouldn't be too many issues, but I'm not sure how well set up Mandrake > > would be for RAID... It's designed to be a desktop OS. Given your preference > > for Mandrake, perhaps you'd want to go with Red Hat as your server OS - the > > RAID set up in the RH installer is sweeeeeeeet. > > Oh, dude, completely ignore that... I shifted my home machine to software > RAID-1 the other day, so my brain is set 100% on software issues. Hardware > RAID should not be a problem for Mandrake at all, as long as it supports the > SCSI adapter out of the box. Shouldn't be too much to ask of an Adaptec > these days. > > 8-) > > - Jeff > > -- > make: *** No rule to make target `whoopee'. Stop. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
