Topic: raid drivers

[rhys]

I'd like to see a driver built in for the avlab.com.tw Ultra ATA/133 Raid controller.

At the moment I'm having to use soft Raid and having to run my two drives as separate drives with soft mirroring rather than as a single drive via hard mirroring.

Rhys

[jr]

As far as I know, this is a-nother software RAID controller (ie the CPU does it under card BIOS control). There's no real advantage to using these in e-smith over Linux software RAID.

The standard Promise, MegaRAID, and Highpoint cards are the same.

For true hardware IDE RAID there's Adaptec, one Promise and ARCO Duplidisk (think 269 USD+).

It'll still be slower than the built-in RAID but with easier rebuild (maybe).

[ToranaGuy ( OCAU )]

Dude,

Have you had a look at the red hat linux website, to see if red hat support's your raid card? Here is an idea!

If red hat does, Esmith probably will, with some work, as Esmith is based on red hat linux. You would have to install Esmith, then hack in the raid driver's. I would sugest a seperate OS hdd, and then run your share's on the raid array.

Grab the rpm's from red hat if they exist for your raid card, and play wtih getting it going.

I have my Emsith 5.1 setup on my dual pII server ( upgrading soon, when i get time to 5.6, along with a larger OS hdd  ) with a 850mb OS hdd, and a 60gb share hdd, for games server's and server side storage. I'm upgrading my dual pIII workstation's raid card as well, so my Esmith will get the Promise FastHack66 raid card, and i shal buy another 60gb hdd.

It won't be easy, but the result's should be worth it.

Cheers

ToranaGuy