Hi Kenneth, I dont have too much experience with the highpoint raid cards, from my understanding they are not 'true' raid cards, they still rely on alot of CPU overhead to run (well this is the case with some motherboard onboard controllers, not sure of the dedicated PCI versions).
I use the 3ware / AMCC raid cards in most of my linux servers, even some of the branded servers that have flaky IDE support. They might cost a bit more than most other cards, but they are true RAID controllers and have full linux kernel support from 2.4.something onwards, no compiling! :) http://www.3ware.com Hope this helps. Cheers, Shane. On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 11:15 +1000, Kenneth Armstrong wrote: > Hi sluggers, > > > > I’ve got an highpoint rocketraid 133 – pci raid adapter card (ide) – > its not recognized during startup (kernel panic) I read its due to it > reporting as two different names at diff times during probing – thus > causing confusion. > > > > I’ve downloaded the open drivers for kernel 2.6 but just can’t get > them to compile – continually getting various errors thrown up at me. > (I don’t have a lot of experience with linux) I also don’t really want > a critical server with drivers that need recompiling every time the > kernel gets updated. > > > > RHEL4 (unsupported) (I would use centos except the mail server > (scalix) doesn’t run on it) > > Dual amd Athlon mp1800 > > 1 Gb ram > > 1 x 60Gb HDD on ide channel 1 > > 2 x 160Gb hdd on pci raid card > > > > So I’m looking for help on this card or recommendations for a > different card that is known to work > > > > Cheers > > Ken > > > > > > > > > > > White Property Group has Antivirus protection measures in place > however White Property Group and the sender of this message accept no > responsibility for any harm, disruption or corruption caused by this > message or its attachments > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
