-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [This is a little late; I've been having problems posting to the list so I've unsubscribed and resubscribed to see if this works or not] Hi Darryl: On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Darryl Harvey wrote: > I am thinking about putting in a RAID controller. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the Mylex (http://www.mylex.com/) controllers for this. If you can afford the money, I also wouldn't hesitate to recommend the COBRA2 models from RAID, Inc. (http://www.raidinc.com/). > I see there are a few IDE RAID controllers (IE: FastTrack, FastSwap and > Adaptec's AAA-UDMA) If you're investing in RAID, I'd probably go with SCSI. > Has anyone had any experience with any of this under Linux?? Hardware RAID, yes. Software RAID, no. If you're interested in going the Mylex route, see my LAME Guide at http://www.linuxninja.com/linux-admin/ which covers this subject. If you're going the COBRA2 route, you'll only need to buy an Ultra Wide SCSI adapter (the Adaptec 2940U works great) and the unit will be seen as one huge disk. > Any suggestions to do or not to do ?? Your RAID level will depend on your application, but you would probably be pretty happy with RAID 5. I wouldn't recommend putting your boot or root file systems in the array. You could put your /usr/local/..., /home, and other non-critical areas on the RAID without too much difficulty, though. Cheers... - --------------< LINUX: The choice of a GNU generation. >-------------- Steve Frampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> InterQ (Japan), Inc. Systems Administrator/Web and News Services http://www.interq.ad.jp/ GNU Privacy Guard ID: D055EBC5 (see http://www.gnupg.org for details) GNU-PG Fingerprint: EEFB F03D 29B6 07E8 AF73 EF6A 9A72 F1F5 D055 EBC5 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE5Owl6mnLx9dBV68URAmBTAJ0TuO6cdppqYPZiZP01jSLi8HTQogCffHIE lNXJ2uupsoeJ9FZNj8/c0dc= =BaoT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
