RAID support

explorer · 05-14-2004, 07:59 AM

I've acquired an old HP netserver with multiple external drive towers all connected via HP netRAID. It use to run NT4 server but I want to put Linux on it. Which distro would I have the best luck getting all the drives to work right under. I don't really care about the RAID part of it, I just want all the drives to work for extra storage. I've got several of the more popular distributions on CD, RH9, Mandrake 9.1, Fedora Core 1 and could probably borrow RHE 2.1 if necessary.

finegan · 05-14-2004, 08:56 AM

Either, if its a SCSI Raid array, its almost definately covered by any distro, especially an older one, its just a matter of what card you have controlling that beast, netRAID could equal anything, one of the Mylex raid chips, adaptec, hopefully LSI's megaraid, who knows... but yeah, it'll almost definately cope with the array right off the bat. All of the server class vendors know that there was money in releasing specs for linux drivers or just writing their own.

Cheers,

Finegan