Raid 5 Experiences

[mike neuliep]

This weekend I moved the kclug machine over to a slightly better box, as well
as upgrading sendmail.  This caused some minor problems with the list, which
if you are reading this message, have since been corrected.

The new box is a dual P166 with 256 meg of ram.  Also installed is an  
American Megatrends Raid 5 428 series controller.  This is a caching
hardware raid 5 controller that is supported by Linux.  It is also fairly
cheap compared to the other supported cards under the 2.0.37 kernel.
The AMI card was $100 and comparable Mylex and Compaq cards ranged 
inbetween $450-$800.  Under NT the card should be considered a steal, 
because you can reconfigure the array on the fly.  The only card you can
do this with in Linux is the Mylex DAC960 series of cards.  Rebuild on
the fly is supported by the card and has been tested with this machine.
With two hotspares, I shouldn't have any drive problems.

I'd like to hear about others on the list that are doing different hardware
raid levels on Linux.

			Mike Neuliep
			mike at illiana.net