[lug] Adaptec RAID controllers

[Peter Hutnick]

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On Monday 24 June 2002 04:43 pm, keith.herold at cox.net wrote:
> Has anyone here had experience installing RAID controllers from Adaptec
> under RH?  I am giving up the previous, crash-prone machine I emailed about
> a few days ago, and the computer guy wants to build a RAID machine to
> replace it.  I, however, have no experience with RAID (and only a vague
> understanding of why it is useful), and would rather not get stuck for days
> trying to get the thing to work.  The specific controller is the 2110S from
> Adaptec.  Adaptec claims it is RH compatible (which I assume really means
> per-kernel), but it isn't on the RH HCL (although the previous 2100 is). 
> So, anyone used it?  Have any tips for installing with one (in case the
> distro doesn't detect and isntall it for me)?

My experience is about 1.5 years stale, but at the time I worked at Dell and 
we shipped servers with Adaptec RAID and RH 6.2.  The driver was a binary 
module that was flaky as hell.

Frankly, I didn't much care for those cards under NT, either.

The other options were AMI MegaRAID cards.  They weren't super-fast, but they 
/were/ ROCK SOLID.

My $0.02.

- -Peter

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