12/27 Anyone know of a four port IDE controller card that's well supported
under linux? Yes, I've already STFW. -dans
\_ promise, though i can't stand them
\_ I can't stand Promise easier. In fact, I'm having major
grief with a Promise card as we speak. I looked on their
site, and they don't appear to list any four channel cards
(except for a serial ATA card, but the drives I've got are
plain vanilla ATA drives). I see a number of two channel
cards (total of four disks). Did I miss something? -dans
\_ Their raid controllers. I've used a couple without much
mishap, but their plain ATA controllers, I've had die very
frequently. --scotsman
\_ Yeah, I've googled a bit more and found the SX4000, which
it seems promise has purged from its site. There is the
considerablly more expensive SX6000, which has two ports
I don't need. Also seems questionable as to whether the
SX4000 is supported under linux. -dans
\_ Check that, the SX4000 is not supported under Linux in
any way that I could consider remotely accepatable.
any way that I could consider remotely acceptable. -dans
\_ Acard.
\_ According to Acard's site, they support Redhat, Suse, and
TurboLinux. Do you know of anyone that has gotten their four
channel RAID card working with a stock Linux kernel? -dans
\_ They have a rpm with the source for the kernel
module. Just grab that and compile for your distro.
\_ 3ware has cards that support up to 8 disks, raid & jbod.
\_ Yup, 3ware's cards kick butt. Alas, they are pricey. Was
wondering if there was anyone else in the market. But they
have an honest to hoyle open source driver, and that may
convince me to give them my money. -dans
\_ "honest to hoyle"
\_ beware older 3ware cards. Do *not* save yourself a buck
buying an older card. I've lost hundreds of gigs of data to
older 3ware cards. No problems yet on the newer ones. Yet.
\_ Define 'older' please. I was looking at an Escalade
7500-4. The only thing I'm aware of that is newer are
the 8500 series which are serial ATA -dans
\_ I asked before, but looks like it got nuked, are the 7500
series cards sufficiently new? The only other 3ware cards
I see are the 8xxx cards, which are serial ATA. -dans
\_ I don't get the "hoyle" reference. pls explain.
\_ honest to hoyle, same as honest to goodness or honest to god.
In this case, an honest to hoyle OS driver as opposed to a
braindead binary-only driver. -dans
\_ rock on, geek god. |
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