<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">The areca cards are quite good<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Dave<BR><DIV><DIV>On 16-Jun-06, at 6:28 PM, Dave Bour wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P><FONT size="2">Been that route. Gave up. Card's for sale if anyone wants it. Used 4 hours<BR> Went 2410 which is h/w raid instead. Got 3 now. All fine until h/w failure a week ago - still recovering now on one array<BR> D<BR> <BR> ------Original Message------<BR> From: phil<BR> To: <A href="mailto:tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org">tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org</A><BR> ReplyTo: <A href="mailto:tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org">tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org</A><BR> Sent: Jun 16, 2006 6:13 PM<BR> Subject: [TLUG]: SATA Raid<BR> <BR> (This is a second-hand message about something a co-worker encountered,<BR> so I may have some details wrong.)<BR> <BR> The system in question is a rack-mount server with two SATA drives that<BR> he would like to have in a raid configuration. He has an Adaptec<BR> 1210SA card that is advertised as doing the job. It also claims to be<BR> Linux compatible. When he attempts an installation -- using a<BR> bleeding-edge Debian distro, I believe -- it shows him the two disks as<BR> separate devices and asks how he wants them partitioned instead of<BR> treating the pair as a single volume. (My assumption was that the<BR> controller should mask the existence of individual drives, but<BR> obviously not.) The documentation has a section on creating a "driver<BR> floppy" which is seemingly useless since the machine has no floppy<BR> drive.<BR> <BR> Q1: Does anyone have experience with making this card work or, on the<BR> other hand, with definitively failing to make it work?<BR> <BR> Q2: If this isn't going to work, is there another hardware solution<BR> that reasonably priced?<BR> <BR> ........................<BR> Phillip Mills<BR> Multi-platform software development<BR> (416) 224-0714<BR> <BR> --<BR> The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: <A href="http://tlug.ss.org">http://tlug.ss.org</A><BR> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns<BR> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: <A href="http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml">http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml</A><BR> <BR> <BR> Dave Bour<BR> Desktop Solution Center<BR> 905.381.0077<BR> <A href="mailto:dcbour-Uj1Tbf34OBsy5HIR1wJiBuOEVfOsBSGQ@public.gmane.org">dcbour@desktopsolutioncenter.ca</A><BR> <BR> For those who just want it to work...<BR> Giving you complete IT peace of mind.<BR> <BR> (Sent via Blackberry - hence message may be shorter than my usual verbose responses)<BR> PIN 3010A5AF (as of June 12, 2006) </FONT> </P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>