on Mon Jun 16 2008, Ante Karamatic <ivoks-AT-grad.hr> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:35:01 -0500 > "James Dinkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The controller is going to be the issue here. Any brands of cards >> that use the same controller are going to be equally supported. You >> could check what controller is on your motherboard and try to get a >> card with that same controller. However, the Promise SATA controller >> is very popular and I *believe* is well supported in linux. > > Promise will bring you bad results. I would suggest 3ware. LSI/Intel > will also work, but as Promise, provide bad results :/ > > Note that I'm talking about RAID cards...
Actually I don't think I care about hardware RAID. My plan is to use a NexentaStor VM to run a RAID-Z array, which I guess is technically software RAID. My websearches have not shown any overwhelmingly positive 3ware-on-Hardy reviews. Is there a specific model you would recommend? -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
