[wplug] RAID, SATA, and Linux (of course)
Bob Supansic
rsupansic at libcom.com
Mon May 8 10:16:16 EDT 2006
Jason Jerome wrote:
> So I was wondering if I could get any recommendations for
> any RAID controllers out there that have good Linux
> support and would be easy to setup.
We recently installed SUSE Linux 10.0 on a fileserver using
an AMD Athlon 64. We could not install 64-bit Linux and had
to settle on the 32-bit and we had to configure the SATA
drives as IDE drives. (We needed to get the thing running;
we hope to get the issues straigthened out eventually.)
On the RAID issue, we turned off the on-board RAID and went
with strictly software RAID mirroring. As it turns out,
most so-called hardware RAID systems seem to be software
patches to the BIOS and offer little or no performance
enhancement over a straight software implementation.
An excellent writeup on these issues is:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
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