SATA Raid

[Dave Cramer]

The areca cards are quite good

Dave
On 16-Jun-06, at 6:28 PM, Dave Bour wrote:

> 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
> D
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: phil
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> ReplyTo: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.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
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> Dave Bour
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