Hardare RAID (0+1) and Linux (Slackware 8.1).

[Myles Green]

OY! Thanks for refreshing my memory on the write-ups in Bedtime 
Reading... <blushes> and for sharing your experiences. I believe I'll 
be doing some reading this weekend.

Myles

On June 21, 2002 10:14 pm, Federico Voges wrote:
> AFAIK the only REAL hardware RAID for IDE are the 3ware controllers.
>
>
> I have one Soyo MoBo with an HPT370 (RAID 0/1/0+1) and an Intel MoBo
> with a Promise FastTrack 100.
>
>
> I'd sugest that you buy another cheap ATA100/133 controller (ie:
> CMD649 chipset) and make a RAID5 array with the disks with software
> RAID (there are instructions in Bedtime Reading -> RAID). You'll have
> a 120GB array. COL 3.1.1 recognizes both controlles as standard IDE
> controllers. With RedHat 71./7.2 don't (at least with the Promise
> controller).
>
>
> I've reading about the BIOS RAID (HPT/Promise) support for Linux and
> it's pretty much useless (ei: it's not fault tolerant. If one disk
> fails, your server will crash).
>
>
> Right now, I have to servers running with soft raid (mirroring)
> without problems (both running COL 3.1.1, one of them using XFS).

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