[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE

[Burton M. Strauss III]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of Ralph Green, Jr
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 3:29 AM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE
>
>
> Howdy,
>   How about low end RAID on SuSE 9.1.  I would like to set un a machine
> at work with 2 hard drives in a shoebox PC caes.  They would be
> mirrored(RAID 1, I believe).  SuSE's website shows no raid controllers
> certified for 9.1.  I was thinking maybe the 3ware controller would work
> since it seems to need no software.  ANy comments?

Don't know about 3ware, but you are right - a lot of really low end RAID
hardware cards work invisibly and thus work great for any OS.  To the
computer the card pretends to have just a Primary Master and Slave,
regardless of the fact that they're both RAID1 sets.  The OS never knows the
difference.

I've got a SIL-680 card running on my Win2003Server, for example.  While
they provide a driver, it's really just gravy, except for the ability to
monitor the real drives using S.M.A.R.T..


-----Burton


> Good day,
> Ralph

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