From: Tom Peters <tpeters@mixcom.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: SuSE 9.2 and 3ware 8506 card
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:41:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20060130164019.0ce71eb8@localhost> (raw)
Hi, brand new newbie (is that redundant?) here, who soon to be the proud
owner of a 3ware 8506-4 RAID card, on its way in the mail. I'm running an
old P3 on SuSE 9.2 and would like to know what to read to get up to speed
on setting this card up and maintaining it once I do. I'm pretty new to
linux and get a lot of advice that is pitched just slightly above my level
of understanding, so please go slow.
I'm currently using a Compaq SmartArray 3200 with 8 drives and I've about
given up getting any kind of reasonable performance out of it. That, plus
the outrageous cost of SCSI drives, is the reason for the switch to SATA. I
can borrow a pair of 300 GB drives for a while to prove the concept (the
3ware card wasn't that pricey) and if I can get it to work reasonably well,
buy some drives. I think there's some voodoo in the BIOS of a real Compaq
server that makes it work properly; for me it's a dog and writes
unbelievably slow.
I've been reading this group for a few weeks and hear some hints and
intimations about things I should probably learn about. For example,
someone just mentioned tw_cli maint verify, is that a 3ware thing or a ext3
thing? And the fact that there is a 3ware knowledgebase (e.g.
http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=13247 should help.
So what else do I need to know?
-T
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next reply other threads:[~2006-01-30 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-30 22:41 Tom Peters [this message]
2006-01-30 22:58 ` SuSE 9.2 and 3ware 8506 card Mike Hardy
2006-01-31 7:38 ` Peter Daum
2006-02-26 20:55 ` Tom Peters
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