Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/25/2013 3:09 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: >> Hi folks! >> >> I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this >> cheap hardware? >> >> What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? > > Sil3114 is NO

Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks! > > I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this > cheap hardware? > > What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? Sil3114 is NOT hardware RAID. It is fakeRAID. Hardware RAID cards t

Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-24 Thread Dom
On 24/05/13 22:08, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi folks! I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this cheap hardware? What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? No need speed... only reliable of datas I've been using Sil3114 based cards in two of my

Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/05/13 05:08 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi folks! I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this cheap hardware? What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? No need speed... only reliable of datas thanks! Pol I think most of us prefer softwa

cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-24 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi folks! I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this cheap hardware? What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? No need speed... only reliable of datas thanks! Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: HW Raid

2010-02-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 01:27:41PM +, Glyn Astill wrote: > --- On Wed, 17/2/10, Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi [snip] > > > > We're using Adaptec 5805's here, not sure on the situation now, but I had to > run the storman client through alien to get it installed on debian - but it > all runs as

Re: HW Raid

2010-02-17 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Wed, 17/2/10, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > Thanks for all the input. I did some more research on the > high point and > even though it talks about smartctl it doesn't actually get > you through > to each device. > > I have now started to look at the adaptec 51245, 3 x sas > connectors with

Re: HW Raid

2010-02-16 Thread Alex Samad
't work inside Debian. > > Cheers, > James > > -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Camaleón > Sent: February 15, 2010 5:25 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: HW Raid > > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010

RE: HW Raid

2010-02-16 Thread James Wu
bian. Cheers, James -Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Camaleón Sent: February 15, 2010 5:25 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: HW Raid On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:15:43 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: (...) > What I am looking at is the ab

Re: HW Raid

2010-02-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:15:43 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: (...) > What I am looking at is the ability to monitor the array from within > linux, sort of like mdadm does, so that if/when a drive goes faulty I > will be notified. I would also like to be able to use smartctl on the > individual drives so

Re: HW Raid

2010-02-14 Thread Victor Padro
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I am looking at buying a hardware raid controller, I have been an > advocate of software raid for quite a while, but having run into some > problems running a 10 disk home server, I figure its time to bit the > bullet and buy a good/nice

HW Raid

2010-02-14 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am looking at buying a hardware raid controller, I have been an advocate of software raid for quite a while, but having run into some problems running a 10 disk home server, I figure its time to bit the bullet and buy a good/nice card. What I am looking at is the ability to monitor the array

Re: Installing Debian Etch on hw RAID 1 on nvidia nForce 430i

2007-07-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
-CD-1.iso for this > installation. > No problem there. > Will Etch recognize the RAID 1 BIOS setup during the installation? > No. See above. > I find on the internet documentation about hardware RAID [1] but can't > find in there description about installing a GNU/Lin

Re: Installing Debian Etch on hw RAID 1 on nvidia nForce 430i

2007-07-06 Thread Thias
the RAID 1 BIOS setup during the installation? > > I find on the internet documentation about hardware RAID [1] but can't > find in there description about installing a GNU/Linux system on hw > RAID 1 out there. > > Can I install Etch on this nvidia hardware RAID 1, or perhaps

Installing Debian Etch on hw RAID 1 on nvidia nForce 430i

2007-07-06 Thread csanyipal
ption about installing a GNU/Linux system on hw RAID 1 out there. Can I install Etch on this nvidia hardware RAID 1, or perhaps should I to install Etch with software RAID 1 on these two SATA disk? Any advices will be appreciated! [1] http://www.ram.org/computing/linux/dpt_raid.html -- Regards,

Looking for a Branded server with HW Raid support in Debian

2006-08-23 Thread Rishi
Hi I plan on using Debian Server in my office but to prevent downtime, I wanted to use a Branded server like IBM, Dell or HP with RAID-1 mirroring hotswap drives. Has anyone had experience with them and could make a recommendation on which model to buy? I had bought an IBM server last y

Re: HW raid 0 setup

2002-10-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.24.1654 +0200]: > SCSI device sda: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) > SCSI device sdb: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) > > Is this correct? Since I'm setting this up as Raid0, shouldn't sda and > sdb be half that size at 898

Re: HW raid 0 setup

2002-10-24 Thread nate
Kevin Coyner said: > > SCSI device sda: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) > SCSI device sdb: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) > > Is this correct? Since I'm setting this up as Raid0, shouldn't sda and > sdb be half that size at 8984MB each? Or is it typical of Raid0 to > report

Re: HW raid 0 setup

2002-10-24 Thread Chris Hilts
>> Is this correct? Since I'm setting this up as Raid0, shouldn't sda and >> sdb be half that size at 8984MB each? Or is it typical of Raid0 to >> report the combined size of the two drives it uses for striping? Speaking of hardware RAID, I've set up a RAID-1 (mirroring) array on my server. Eve

Re: HW raid 0 setup

2002-10-24 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:02:41AM -0700, nate wrote.. > Kevin Coyner said: > > > SCSI device sda: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) > > SCSI device sdb: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) > > > > Is this correct? Since I'm setting this up as Raid0, shouldn't sda and > > sdb

HW raid 0 setup

2002-10-24 Thread Kevin Coyner
I'm trying to setup a Raid0 using a SCSI LSI Raid controller card and four 9G SCSI drives. The intent is to have two drives (sda and sdb), both of which use Raid0. During POST I can get into the controller bios and set it up for Raid0. I then continue on with the normal boot process, which yie