Hi,
I'm looking for a SCSI-RAID controller which is supported by Linux (PCI). Is
there such a beast available ?
TIA,
Wanne de Kler
by Wanne de Kl » Sat, 01 Jun 1996 04:00:00
Hi,
I'm looking for a SCSI-RAID controller which is supported by Linux (PCI). Is
there such a beast available ?
TIA,
Wanne de Kler
by Michael Neuff » Mon, 03 Jun 1996 04:00:00
: I'm looking for a SCSI-RAID controller which is supported by Linux (PCI). Is
: there such a beast available ?
Yes, check out the DPT SCSI controllers. They have a line of controllers that
do RAID if you plug in a dougtherboard and a line of 'native' RAID
controllers. All of them are supported by my EATA-DMA driver in the standard
kernel.
Check out DPTs Web pages http://www.dpt.com.
Hope this helps.
Mike
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by Michael Neuffe » Tue, 04 Jun 1996 04:00:00
> I plan on using a PCI based smartcache IV card with the caching and raid
> daughterboards installed (probably only 4 megs of cache). I'm leaning to
> the high performance models (I forget their numbers).
> Now to my question, just how well are these supported? This could end up
> a file server running for a mixed windows/unix network and I plan on
> using the RAID 5 (raid 1 at a minimum) set up. Is this supported
> seamlessly
No, not on the hardware side.Quote:> or there some gotchas I need to plan for?
The only thing that could get you in trouble is the SCSI midlevel code
of the Linux SCSI IO subsystem, which made the whole subsystem somewhat
instable for all drivers. It is not really suited to the high performance
of the DPTs and some other HBAs, but we are currently working very hard
on getting things better.
The current kernel are pretty stable again.
Nothing I know of.Quote:> Lastly, what
> drives/hardware/accessories/etc (if any) should I avoid putting in the
> system (or more accurately phrased, are there any hardware/drives/etc
> that I should not use with the DPT card and driver in the Linux system)?
You're welcome.Quote:> Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Mike
Michael Neuffer i-Connect.Net, a Division of iConnect Corp.
503.677.2900 Beaverton, OR 97008
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