Re: [CentOS] real SATA RAID

2009-02-09 Thread Christopher Chan
/me puts on salamander suit. Hal Martin wrote: > As many people have stated in this thread, 3ware and Areca make some > good hardware RAID solutions. I don't know about Areca but 3ware certainly. I have never come across issues with any 3ware boards hardware-wise. I suppose you have an opinion

Re: [CentOS] real SATA RAID

2009-02-09 Thread Hal Martin
As many people have stated in this thread, 3ware and Areca make some good hardware RAID solutions. Software RAID using mdadm works too, quite well, I might add. I was one of those people who stayed away from software RAID in linux, thinking it was too complicated and difficult, I was wrong. It's d

Re: [CentOS] real SATA RAID

2009-02-08 Thread Christopher Chan
Paolo Supino wrote: > Hi > > Last week I had a lengthy thread in which someone indicated the my SIL > card is a FRAID (don't know if F stands for the F word or Fake, though > it doesn't really matter). I want to replace the controller with a > controller that Linux will see the RAID1 group a

Re: [CentOS] real SATA RAID

2009-02-08 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 15:33 -0600, Sam wrote: > The software raid in linux with mdadm is very powerful. Alot of people > stay away from software raid because they think that a hardware solution > would be easier to work with. But with a hardware solution, how do you > monitor the status of you

Re: [CentOS] real SATA RAID

2009-02-08 Thread John R Pierce
Bill Campbell wrote: > This thread brings up a question I have been meaning to ask for a > while. I have a Supermicro box with an Adaptec AIC-8120 on a > X5DPL-TGM main board. It is working fine with CentOS 5.something, > at least as far as basic operations. > > My question is whether there is a

Re: [CentOS] real SATA RAID

2009-02-08 Thread Sam
Paolo Supino wrote: > Hi > > Last week I had a lengthy thread in which someone indicated the my SIL > card is a FRAID (don't know if F stands for the F word or Fake, though > it doesn't really matter). I want to replace the controller with a > controller that Linux will see the RAID1 group a

Re: [CentOS] real SATA RAID

2009-02-08 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009, Pint?r Tibor wrote: >> Last week I had a lengthy thread in which someone indicated the my SIL >> card is a FRAID (don't know if F stands for the F word or Fake, though >> it doesn't really matter). I want to replace the controller with a >> controller that Linux will see

Re: [CentOS] real SATA RAID

2009-02-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 08.02.2009 um 14:51 schrieb William Warren: > >> 3ware, areca, adaptec >> >> t >> ___ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > careful on adaptec..a fair amount of their cards are fraid as

Re: [CentOS] real SATA RAID

2009-02-08 Thread William Warren
> 3ware, areca, adaptec > > t > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > careful on adaptec..a fair amount of their cards are fraid as well. ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] real SATA RAID

2009-02-08 Thread William Warren
On 2/8/2009 4:38 AM, Paolo Supino wrote: > Hi > > Last week I had a lengthy thread in which someone indicated the my > SIL card is a FRAID (don't know if F stands for the F word or Fake, > though it doesn't really matter). I want to replace the controller > with a controller that Linux will se

Re: [CentOS] real SATA RAID

2009-02-08 Thread Pintér Tibor
> Last week I had a lengthy thread in which someone indicated the my SIL > card is a FRAID (don't know if F stands for the F word or Fake, though > it doesn't really matter). I want to replace the controller with a > controller that Linux will see the RAID1 group as a single HD and not > mult

Re: [CentOS] real SATA RAID

2009-02-08 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
2009/2/8 Paolo Supino : > Hi > Last week I had a lengthy thread in which someone indicated the my SIL > card is a FRAID (don't know if F stands for the F word or Fake, though it > doesn't really matter). I want to replace the controller with a controller > that Linux will see the RAID1 group as a