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Adaptec Adaptec 2410SA
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67% of reviewers $390.00 7.0



Description: The Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 2410SA is a 4-port native Serial ATA I/O processor-based RAID controller that supports Adaptec's advanced feature set, including Optimized Disk Utilization, Online Capacity Expansion and RAID Level Migration.

The Adaptec 2410SA supports SATA 2 features including enclosure management and backplanes. Adaptec Storage Manage™ - Browser Edition provides centralized management for Adaptec host-based RAID controllers. The Adaptec 2410SA supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD configurations and features 64 MB of fixed ECC SDRAM cache memory.

Full OS support includes Windows® Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, RedHat Linux and SuSE Linux, SCO UnixWare® and Caldera Open UNIX®.

Keywords: 4 Channel SATA Hardware RAID
/sbin/lspci output: 01:02.0 I2O: Distributed Processing Technology SmartRAID V Controller (rev 02)
01:02.1 PCI bridge: Distributed Processing Technology PCI Bridge (rev 02)
Connection Type: 64 bit 66MHz PCI


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Old 05-02-2004, 01:34 PM   #1
Lost Penguin
 
Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: 2.6.1-1.131smp on Fedora Core 1
Posts: 31

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution: Redhat 7.3 -9.0



The Driver disk images for the 2810SA from Adaptec are newer and support ALL Adaptec HARDWARE RAID cards.
The 2410SA drivers should be installed during a clean Redhat 7.3-9.0 installation with:
linux dd

The Adaptec Storage Manager Browser Edition from the 2810SA downloads page should also be installed for a gui to configure/repair/rebuild/expand/morph your array.

There is source code for drivers to download for all the newer Adaptec Hardware RAID (SATA and SCSI)

These drivers will run these RAID cards:
2410SA
2410Sa w/ Enclosure kit
2810SA
2120S
2200S
5400S

They will not run the HostRAID adapters.
They will not run the Adaptec 1210SA
Some SCSI HostRAID adapters are supported though other Adaptec driver source downloads.
 
Old 10-12-2004, 08:23 AM   #2
 
Registered: Dec 1969
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Kernel (uname -r): all except OLD
Distribution: all except OLD rh&suse


This model is not compatible with Linux as many others.

Well, I think it's unfair to acknowledge that hw is supproted by Linux, when the support is only for redhat/suse, because it is not Linux. Linux is the base of all distributions, and if only some of them supports Linux, then there is RedHat or SuSe's compatibility not LINUX. With such kind of drivers there is lack of freedom given by Linux: you can't make customized/tuned kernel, recompile the way you need or use it with newer or older kernels. Without source it's almost impossible. So if RedHat/SuSe will continue supporting hw vendors of closed source drivers, there will be global problem. So I suggest to boycot hw without compatible source for Linux, or we will lose freedom again.
 
Old 07-07-2005, 08:38 AM   #3
Schrambo
 
Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Debian Slackware CentOS
Posts: 102

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $390.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.29
Distribution: Slackware 10.1


This RAID card has full hardware kernel level linux support.

All i literally had to do to install my RAID card and get working was intitalise the drives in the RAID cards BIOS, install the distro on a PATA seperate hdd.

do a quick format on /dev/sda, a quick /etc/fstab entry and boom it was mounted and boom I had a RAID 5 hdd setup.

I imagine that to install the OS on the OS on a RAID array on the card would be to just do the per normal fdisk /dev/sda and partition it up and away it goes.

Please note that I did select the linux kernel image with Adaptec support. This was the only difference I had to do from a vanilla Slackware install.

 




  



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