[lug] Adaptec RAID controllers

[Rob Riggs]

Adaptec makes the best SCSI RAID controllers on the market right now IMO 
-- far better than AMI or Mylex at this point. Adaptec's support for 
Linux is outstanding as of late. All of their drivers are open-source 
(AFAIK) at this point. My experience was with the Dell PercRAID 
controllers. They were great (at least the Adaptec-based ones were).

I doubt you'll have problems. Most of Adaptec's newer RAID controllers 
use the same dpt_i2o driver (including their IDE RAID controllers). I'd 
be surprised if this one did not, since it's based on a similar 
processor. There is a remote chance that you'll need to make a boot 
floppy set by dd'ing the appropriate boot & driver disk set to floppy. 
I'd be surprised if this were the case though.

Good luck.

-Rob

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)?
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>--Keith
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