FC3 & Adaptec 1210SA RAID controller
 

HI,
I've just bought an ADAPTEC 1210SA RAID Controller. I havo no problem accessing disks in JBOD mode (using sata_sil), but when I create a RAID 1 array, FC3 installer still recognizes 2 drives (sda & sdb) instead of one logical drive. :eek:
RAID1 is installed correctly and the PC BIOS allows me to boot only from the logical drive.
Any suggestions?
:confused:

Thanks in advance

did you try to make a software raid?
 

Hi all...

here is what i know now:


Yes, the 1210SA is a Software RAID controller. The card itself does not contain any ECCRAM or Hardware RAID LOGIC (XOR).
The card is supported on most new distros, but some IDE-software modules are bugged. ("Lost Interrupt" and or hangs)
The Card seems to work with Fedora Core 3.
The Striped array is detected as 2 HDDs on my system, not as one big good RAID array. (1210SA just a SATA io Card ???)

It looks that i have to set up a software RAID to get my Hardware RAID working. :/

The 2410SA has REAL HARDWARE RAID and 64 MB of fixed ECC SDRAM. Much more hardware, exactly 300$ more.
This is what you need for massive performance servers. (+ 4 HDDs)


But im still happy, in my home-server the processor is not used for many other tasks. (file server only) A MotherBoard with 66Mhz PCI would make me more happy.
Im unhappy about Adaptec's bisness strategy. the 1210SA should be called a Software-RAID card, or a S-ATA IO Card, or maybe a fake-RAID card.
The difference is not really documented.


... thats all folks