I've been searching for RAID cards and regular ATA cards. I want to use either a good hardware RAID card that supports RAID 5, or an ATA card that works well with Linux. While searching, I've found more comments online about RAID cards that do NOT work well with Linux than ones that do. Even when I've found a good RAID card (as in works with Linux), it turns out a lot of people have serious trouble with it.
So, for now, I'm simplifying it and looking for an ATA card and planning on using mdadm to run the RAID. Whatever I get, I want to put it in and have it running quickly. I've found an Adaptec 133/100 Ultra ATA card (ASH-1233), but I can't find anything clear about using it on Linux. Usually if a card is bad, I see a lot of problems on the web, but when I searched for info on this card, I found hardly anything -- and nothing really useful except for 1 bad experience, which could have been due to hardware failure. So are IDE cards so standardized that I don't find many hits on them when looking for Linux compatibility because it is a non-issue (like trying to find a Linux compatible hard drive would give few hits because it is a non-issue), or is there some other reason I can't find much on this Adaptec card in specific and IDE cards in general? Also, if anyone has a RAID card that does hardware RAID, without using the driver to do all the work, and can do RAID 5 (and, preferably, is hot swappable under Linux), I'd like to hear about it. Thanks! Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
