I can't help you in this area. If you are looking for a stable and easy set-up
system
don't think twice about using mother boards with a lot of integrated chips.
You will face drivers problems, interrupts problems, etc.
mark@hoist.nlcomm.com wrote:
> Thanks! Mylex is at the top of my list.
>
> Are those motherboards with integrated RAID ultra2 controllers any
> good? The one I looked at is a Tyan Thunderbold and has a "RAID bus
> slot" and use an Adaptec 7896.
>
> Mark
>
> > We used DPT RAID5 controllers and since 2 months we changed to Mylex
> > eXtremeRAID 1100 controller.
> >
> > Very good product with perfect drivers for Linux.
>
> mark@hoist.nlcomm.com wrote:
>
> > I'm building a new server and I get to pick the hardware; so what is
> > the best "ultra 2" raid 5 controller wrt Linux support? I plan to
> > have qty. 4 9-gig discs and would like a controller with a good amount
> > of caching (raid 5 is very dependent on write caching).
> >
> > How will it notify me if one of the drives goes out (it will be far,
> > far away from me in an unattended room)?
> >
> > Hot swapping is a bonus but not too important.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Mark
> >
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