From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konstantin Olchanski Subject: Re: 3Ware on 64bit Linux. Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:36:15 -0700 Message-ID: <20050608213615.GC14944@sam.triumf.ca> References: <602f2f2b050608100938ddad81@mail.gmail.com> <200506081156.31051.hjm@tacgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200506081156.31051.hjm@tacgi.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Harry Mangalam Cc: Jason Leach , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:56:30AM -0700, Harry Mangalam wrote: > I have what is probably a relatively common setup for a medium high end, > stand-alone, PC-based server: > > - dual opteron IWILL Mobo, Gb ethernet > - 3ware 9500S 8 port card running 8x250GB WD 2500SD disks in RAID5. > - Disks are in 2x 4slot Chenbro hotswap RAID cages. > - running kubuntu Linux in pure 64bit mode > - OS is running from a separate 200GB IDE disk > - on an APC UPS (runnning apcupsd w/ a usb cable) I have a 3ware 8506-12 SATA controller with 12 WD 250 GByte SATA disks, on an old dual opteron-242 Tyan mobo. The system disk is a separate 80 GB IDE disk. The SATA disks are confugured into 2 striped (one hardware raid, one software raid) logical volumes (1.5 TB each). The box and the hot-swap disk enclosure is el-cheapo stuff from Hard Data in Edmonton, AB (works great!). This system has been rock solid from day one, running RedHat 9 (32-bit), then Fedora 1 (32-bit), than Fedora 2 and 3 (64-bit). I use the 3ware driver that comes with the Red Hat kernels, the additional monitoring tools from 3ware do not work. SMART monitoring works via "smartctl -a -d 3ware,0 /dev/twe0". -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada