From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=EBl?= Bourquard Subject: Re: What SATA controller for software raid and/or lvm? Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:51:03 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1074462662.8813.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1074459283.2532.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040118212933.GB3763@hvs.envisage.co.za> Reply-To: numlock@freesurf.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040118212933.GB3763@hvs.envisage.co.za> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ming Zhang List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 22:29, Hendrik Visage wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:54:44PM -0500, Ming Zhang wrote: > > Hi, I want to setup a software raid and lvm configuration with 2-4T= B raw > > disk space. I wonder if you can give me some suggestions on what ki= nd of > > sata controllers are friendly to my purpose? :) >=20 > Those supported properly in the kernel :) >=20 > At present I'm using the onboard Via & Promise (20378) for SATA + (ev= ms) > software RAID, but there are others that have different views on whic= h > controller(s) to use. >=20 Unfortunately an onboard SATA RAID controller will not be enough for 2-4TB. I'm looking to build the exact same thing (at least 2TB) using 256GB SATA disks. If money is no issue, the 8- or 12-port 3ware SATA RAID controllers hav= e excellent linux support. =46or software RAID, I think it's overkill.. why buy a RAID coprocessor when you don't actually use it ? I think I'll go with two Highpoint 1820 (8-port) PCI-X controllers and see how it works.. Linux support wasn't their strong point in the past, but it seems they released an "open-source" kernel module on 2nd January, 2004. Maybe a RAID guru can have a look at it, and see if it's a marketing joke or not ? Anyway, for the price I think I'll take the risk and order two of them next week. Regards, Jo=C3=ABl > Hendrik > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid"= in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html