[wlug_org] Linux hardware

[Brent Wood]

--- Michael Dittmer <michael.dittmer@paradise.net.nz> wrote:

> Thanks Ewen
> 
> The problem that I have is that my Dual P3 box only has PCI slots and
> doesn't support disks bigger then 137GB. SME Server 6 supports soft RAID-1
> out of the box (works quite well on a clients server) but not RAID-5, so I
> need a card to handle both RAID-5 and disks bigger then 137GB.
> 
> I think I'm between a rock and a hard place.  :-[
> 

Michael,

You might look into LSI (or maybe even Promise?) PCI RAID controllers.

AFAIK, the LSI ones are also sold as Intel. 
http://www.lsilogic.com/files/docs/techdocs/storage_stand_prod/RAIDpage/mr_ide_linux_ug.pdf#search='PCI%20RAID%20Linux%20IDE%20SCSI%20LSI%20MegaRAID'

I've known both to work OK on a few Linux servers, and both are plentiful in
32bit PCI solutions. Not as high end as 3ware, but should be able to at least
support large drives, RAID, Linux & PCI32.

Adaptec also had some similar ones which were supposedly Linux compatible, but
I haven't used any. Given driver issues, I'd go with Promise as a last resort
:-)


Brent