[lug] Adaptec RAID controllers

[Nate Duehr]

I've never had major problems with either one.  Only weird off-brands.  Have
used Adaptec 28XX series stuff and Adaptex 7XXX stuff, and the MegaRAID.

The WORST SCSI experience I have had with linux was with the Dell PERCRaid
2/Si.  Don't get me started about that controller, it would have been better
off in the landfill.  But... the 3/Si and later seemed much better.

--
Nate, nate at natetech.com

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> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Peter Hutnick
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 6:20 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us; keith.herold at cox.net
> Subject: Re: [lug] Adaptec RAID controllers
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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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