Re: Upgrading RH9 Kernel and Promise SATA Raid

["Eucke Warren" <euckew sierraelectronics com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Weller" <simon nzservers com>
To: "Discussion of the Fedora Legacy Project"
<fedora-legacy-list redhat com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: Upgrading RH9 Kernel and Promise SATA Raid


> On Wednesday 06 October 2004 01:23 pm, Eucke Warren wrote:
>
> Hi Eucke,
>
> You're probably not going to like my suggestion, but I'll put it forward
> anyway:
>
> http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata.asp
>
> 3ware controllers work out of the box and I've never had any problems with
> them.
> The Promise and Highpoint controllers often use software based RAID
techniques
> in the drivers themselves, hence why they refuse to open source them.
>
> The 3ware cards are full hardware RAID. I can just see someone is going to
> correct me here and tell me I'm wrong ;-)
>
>
> I've lost at least 3 arrays using highpoint based controllers after the
new
> drivers they released decided to bliz my data...very frustrating. The
3ware
> controllers have been my choice since and I have yet (touch wood) to have
any
> issues with them at all...they just work.
>
>
> - Si
>

Hello Simon,

That makes sense actually.  Not to distrust 3ware specifically but I tend to
be leery of any mfr who only has two distributors with whom they work...how
can I best determine if anyone else is doing true hardware RAID in SATA?
Like ADAPTEC or Mylex or anyone else?

-Eucke