On 15.09.2006, at 08:10, Alain Fauconnet wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 06:25:39AM +0200, Vidar Tyldum Hansen wrote: > >> Alain Fauconnet:
> ... > Hmmm... glad to see I'm not alone. How come these IBM RAID controllers > seem relatively popular with all this? haven't had the "fun" with IBM controllers, but I can tell you about 3ware, icp vortex and kernel sw raid. I want to share the following experience: 3ware (raid0/1/5 over ide drives four/eight connectors) controller crashed, on the next reboot the two connected ide drives showed up as 16T (each), and linux refused to recognize the raid1 array as /dev/sda. Subsequent tests have proven the controller is erasing the drive firmware on accident. Not that this happend to me more then once, but still a story to tell ... Since 3ware (3w-xxxx) and icp vortex (gdth) drivers are in the kernel, do not try and install from binary package. Both controller types have served me well, positive to mention is the webinterface (depending on manufacturer, but mostly written in perl) for hot removing and hot adding of drives. Both controllers in SATA config are definitely worth a try. But the high price tag is for hot-plug for sure, so consider yourself. All of my servers, even the smallerst have a boot/root/raid1 config, and if one of the 8-10GB ide drives fail on the old mail servers there isn't much downtime (thanks swup again, for not letting me down in all this years running small server configs). The oldest machine in that game is a p2 (around 300mhz) serving on TSL2.2 smtp for about 50 users in a filter,store,vscan,forward way. And this machine hasn't lost a drive (or email) for years now. matthias _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
