[TriLUG] raid cards

[Wing D Lizard]

which promise card?

Most posts say to stay away from promise cards.  Mostly
they say promise has some good 'solutions;, but the end user
stuff is poor.

My amd computer uses the 3112 chip internally, and it seems to
work fine.

b

> On 2/15/06, Wing D Lizard <wingedlizard at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>> I want to add a raid-1 to a server ( supermicro x5dal).  Since the
>> motherboard doesn't support hw raid, I'm looking at pci sata
>> cards.
>>
>> Intrex has a couple:
>>
>>    CON-SATAR - sil3112a chipset
>>    CON-TX2300 - promice fastrack tx2300 ( SATA II??)
>>
>> has anybody tried either of these?  Any problems?
>>
>> Can you boot from a sata drive with these cards?
>>
>> Is there any reason to stay away from fc3/4?  CentOS?
>>
>> The server is a LAMP server, supporting an accounting app
>> (ARIA), and a few odds and ends  ( phplive, etc).
> 
> Make sure you look at the status of Linux SATA support at
> 
> http://linux.yyz.us/sata/
> 
> I originally had a SiL SATA card and it sucked royally.  Crashes,
> not working, general suckage.  Perhaps the drivers have gotten
> better.  I switched to a Promise SATA card and haven't had any
> problems since.  I'm using software RAID1.  Don't know about
> booting since the system disk is just a generic IDE.  Good luck.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
> 
> 
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