RAID Setup Assistance

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:58:03 PDT 2004


In a 1.3K blaze of typing glory, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 01/10/04 19:26, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >Howdy, list,
> >
> >I recently acquired a new (to me) server: 
> >
> >Dual Pentium II 300 CPUs
> >512 MB RAM
> >Mylex DAC960 RAID controller
> >AIC-7990 SCSI controller
> >5 IBM DDRS-39130W (9GB) disks

[...]

> Ugh, mylex.  Mylex controllers have abysmal performance.  At any rate, 
> you configure the RAID controller at bootup, by hitting ALT-R when 
> prompted.  Most Mylex controllers manufactured in the past 5 years can 
> do RAID 0 through 5 (all poorly).

It was free, so I'm not complaining.

Kurt
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