[olug] IDE Hardware RAID

[Adam Haeder]

I agree with Phil. I've currently got 7 RH9 boxes with 3ware ide raid 
cards. I'm very happy with them, and they're very easy to setup. The 3ware 
driver that's in the RH9 kernel is the latest one.

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On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Phil Brutsche wrote:

> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> 
> > I have a new system with built-in Promise RAID.
> 
> This is not hardware RAID.  This is software RAID, and in many cases is
> specific to Windows 2000/XP.
> 
> > I thought about putting a 3ware card in the system.
> > As per the 3ware site they only support up to Redhat 8 at present.
> 
> For 3ware cards to not work with RH9 RedHat would have had to break
> something BIG TIME!
> 
> 3ware has had open-source drivers for their cards in the mainstream kernel
> since the 2.2.x days.
> 
> > Has anyone worked with any other IDE Hardware RAID?
> 
> 3ware, hands down.
> 
>