[ale] Libranet questions

[Greg]

Yes, your comments are welcome.  This is for my home, so I am leary of the
prices of hw RAID.  Also, if the hw raid card goes south, you need the *same
card* to recover the data (or so I have been told).  But for a company
environment I am totally with you.  I have noticed the abundance of kernel
patches for Promise's cards laying around the 'net.

Thanks for the input.

Greg


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Brian
> Chase
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 2:13 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Libranet questions
>
>
> If you're new to Linux, you may want to see if Webmin works well under
> Libranet, as I have found it to be an invaluable tool for administering
> server functionality for several other distributions, might work well for
> you and has remote web-based management and SSL security built in.
>
> I have a Promise Fastrack 100TX2 RAID card and it offers POOR support for
> RAID and drivers for Linux.  I believe this applies to all linux
> distro's.  I have done my own research on the topic and have decided to
> bite the bullet and go with the 3Ware Escalade 7006-2 IDE Raid Controller
> for true hardware RAID and excellent Linux support.
>
> I will not use anything from Promise in any Linux systems of mine due to
> their poor support of Linux.  Besides, the Promise chipsets are kinda
> like Winmodems that borrow mainboard system resources and don't even have
> their own controllers on-board.  For that reason, they only have the RAID
> performance of software RAID.  I want BIOS level hardware RAID for any
> mission critical data and you might re-think that as well.
>
> Best of luck, hope my opinions and observations helped in making and
> informed decision.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> BC
>
>
>
> Greg wrote:
>
> > I have been using Libranet 2.81 (a Debian based distro) as a
> workstation for
> > myself and my wife (yes !) and was wondering if anyone was using it in a
> > server mode - specifically as a file/Samba server with software RAID.
> >
> > I was also wondering if anyone using Libranet had any problems with it
> > recognizing the Promise IDE controller cards (the ones that come bundled
> > with Maxtor hard drives) and what, if any, solutions they had found.
> >
> > 	Thanks,
> > 	Greg
> >
> >
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