Linux ATA RAID

[Lucas Peet]

I've had great luck with Adaptec's 2400a I2O ATA Raid controller.  It was 
really easy to set up.  And 100% Linux compatable.  In fact, the setup CD 
boots from a Linux Kernel and loads up a GUI in X11 to create your RAID!

It supports RAID 0, 1, and 5, has 4 channels, and 32MB SDRAM Cache.  It is a 
bit pricey though, in the $300 range.

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=423219/search=ata raid 
controller/ut=411e74ea55fd7ab5

-Lucas

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 3:43 pm, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> Repost since the list seems alive again:
>
> Anyone got any experience with linux and hardware ATA RAID controller
> cards?  I need to put together a server with 500+ Gig of
> storage.  The Dell server purchased for this has on-board SCSI (Dell
> 1400-SC), but SCSI drives are still expensive vs. ATA for the same
> capacity.
>
> I'm debating using SCSI drives vs. buying a hardware RAID and using
> cheaper IDE drives.  I have fast/wide PCI slots available, so I'd prefer
> a fast-wide hardware IDE raid card, but performance is really secondary
> to data integrity and low-cost (it's not a perfect world, after all!).
>
> Any suggestions on something that might play well with linux, or should
> I just buy a bunch of SCSI drives and setup SW RAID?
>
> NOTE:  I'll need to use RAID 5, since capacity and cost are the driving
> issues, and the server isn't particularly fast (1.13 GHz P3), so I'm
> thinking there might be a benifit to off-loading the RAID processing to
> a hardware card, even if it's IDE.