Possible contact? Just dug this up. ----mark
Jay Barrett writes: > Justin, > > I have been using using an 3Ware Escalade 7500 IDE RAID > controller with RH 7.3 for the past 5 months with no issues. > My NAS is configured with as a 5 drive RAID 5 array with a hot > spare. I went with 3Ware's the 8 drive parallel ATA version but > also they have 4 and 2 drive versions. The card was easy to > configure and has been painless since then. I must warn you that > routing the cables was a pain and I ended up using the round single > connection cables. I really wanted to get the serial ATA version to > avoid the cabling issues and the potential of the cables to impact > the airflow and thus cause thermal problems which would lead to a > premature failure. At that time serial ATA drives were difficult to get > and limited to 80GB, but the next one I buy will be serial ATA. > > By the way my decision to use the 3Ware card drove my choices > on Motherboards (Tyan dual Xeon) and drives (IBM 185GB) in order > to stay within their (3ware) compatibility matrix. And the motherboard > drove the rack mount chassis decision, which could not be sourced > locally. Anyways after a little detective work all came together > nicely and I would definitely buy another 3Ware controller. > > Small Print: My primary complaint about IDE RAID cards is that nobody > locally (RTP area) carries anything other than 2 port cards, but a few > will special order them for you, but that kind of defeats the purpose > in my mind. > > Regards, > Jay > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Justin Johnson > Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 3:38 PM > To: TriLUG > Subject: [TriLUG] Installing linux on IDE RAID > > Any one here installed linux(RedHat) on a system with IDE raid? I have > asystem with a Promise Fastrax TX2000 controller and space available, so > I > was considering diving in and installing RH 9 on it. Any thing to watch > out > for, or is it pretty straight forward. I know that ther are drivers > avaialble, off to get the most current one now. > > TIA, > Justin > _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
