SATA Raid

[Dave Bour]

Been that route. Gave up. Card's for sale if anyone wants it. Used 4 hours
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
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------Original Message------
From: phil
To: tlug at ss.org
ReplyTo: tlug at ss.org
Sent: Jun 16, 2006 6:13 PM
Subject: [TLUG]: SATA Raid

(This is a second-hand message about something a co-worker encountered, 
so I may have some details wrong.)

The system in question is a rack-mount server with two SATA drives that 
he would like to have in a raid configuration.  He has an Adaptec 
1210SA card that is advertised as doing the job.  It also claims to be 
Linux compatible.  When he attempts an installation -- using a 
bleeding-edge Debian distro, I believe -- it shows him the two disks as 
separate devices and asks how he wants them partitioned instead of 
treating the pair as a single volume.  (My assumption was that the 
controller should mask the existence of individual drives, but 
obviously not.)  The documentation has a section on creating a "driver 
floppy" which is seemingly useless since the machine has no floppy 
drive.

Q1: Does anyone have experience with making this card work or, on the 
other hand, with definitively failing to make it work?

Q2: If this isn't going to work, is there another hardware solution 
that reasonably priced?

........................
Phillip Mills
Multi-platform software development
(416) 224-0714

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Dave Bour
Desktop Solution Center
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dcbour at desktopsolutioncenter.ca

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