Linux ATA RAID

[Charles Steinkuehler]

Lucas Peet wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2003 5:41 pm, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>> Yeah, I've always liked Adaptec controllers.  The biggest problem with
>> the 2400a is the 4 drive limit.  That get's me about the right amount of
>> storage today using 4 180Gig drives in RAID5, but I'd like to be able to
>> expand when (not if :) it's needed.
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you have 2 drives per channel?  At 4 
> channels x2 drives that should give you up to 8 drives?

You can normally have 2 drives per channel, but the Adaptec 2400A 
controller only supports one HDD per channel, for a total of 4 drives.

I'm still hoping to hear from someone with experience with something 
that could support 6-8 drives.

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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net