Now, for an opposite view... I've been using my Silicon Image SI3112 chipset addon card with an 80 gig SATA drive for about a good year now -- never had a drop of trouble.
Jay On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:18:55 -0500, Ed Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 18:53 -0500, ljacobs wrote: > > What have been people's experiences with 3Ware or other SATA > > controllers running RAID5 under CentOS or other distros? And > > have you built arrays with 300GB or 250GB drives? How big? > > > Hi "ljacobs", > > We've tried to build multi-terabyte arrays using dual-opteron systems > (Tyan 2885 boards) and the very latest 3ware 9500-series cards. We've > had nothing but trouble with two systems and and our woes are documented > on the LKML. I *think* we somehow got MBs that just weren't happy with > those 3ware cards but we haven't ruled out 3ware's drivers, either > (tried on both Fedora Core and RHEL and were unable to build > sufficiently stable arrays to actually use them). > > So if you decide to build-your-own, be careful! > > Ed > > -- > Edward H. Hill III, PhD > office: MIT Dept. of EAPS; Rm 54-1424; 77 Massachusetts Ave. > Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 > emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > URLs: http://web.mit.edu/eh3/ http://eh3.com/ > phone: 617-253-0098 > fax: 617-253-4464 > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- Jason Faulkner Old Os Admin http://oldos.org --------------------------- *Employed full-time now -- thanks for all the emails of support* -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
