Hi,
I've just succesfully installed and am now running Debian3r0 with Abit BD7II-RAID ATA133 motherboard which uses the Highpoint 372 Controller (hardware). It was a bit of a struggle getting it to work as you need a spare disk to prepare the kernel that will boot from the raid disks. I have the RAID in 0 mode and it is fast. Highpoint provide a driver that you can compile as a module for your kernel. Some of this is non-free, therefore it is downloaded partly as source and partly as a pre-compiled lib. It works much like CDRW by making the RAID devise a scsi one. I have not had to use any raidtools package. Highpoint also provide a frontend that allows you to monitor your disks, rebuild them etc.. Tom On Tuesday 27 August 2002 4:27 pm, Danijel Pajur wrote: > Hi everybody! > > The time has come to upgrade my trusty old Debian box, and I\'ve started > looking into getting an affordable IDE RAID solution. Searching the web for > various IDE RAID controllers and Linux revealed lots of problems, most of > which I\'d assume are related to the actual hardware, or lack thereof. > > I know times change, and I\'m wondering if anyone could advise me if > there\'s an IDE RAID controller out there that works well with Debian, in > RAID1 (mirror) mode? Or would I be better off just scrapping the idea, and > going with single drives or software RAID? > > What I\'m really looking for is a trouble-free solution to running two > drives in a mirror, and if there\'s a management software - great, if there > isn\'t, the least I expect is to see errors in the syslog if one of the > drives fails. It doesn\'t seem like much to expect, but somehow I think it > might be hard to find with IDE RAID offerings :) > > I appreciate all your help. > > kind regards, > Danijel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
