Linux RAID?

alypius · 06-06-2003, 10:21 AM

I recently bought this: http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp...SD-SIL680-RAID raid controller on Ebay and I've been having a little trouble setting it up.
Does anyone have any experience with these? Do I have to set up some sort of software raid? Is there an online manual available for it somewhere?

I'm trying to setup two 13 gig drives in a raid 0 (striped) format with Slackware 9.

cyberskye · 06-06-2003, 11:04 AM

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Product Requirements

* Windows 98/98SE/Me/NT 4.0/2000/XP
* UDMA/133 Drive (Matching drives needed for RAID)
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It's a win-RAID card. Set up software or get a card that is supported by some linux distro (there aren't many for IDE RAID)

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alypius · 06-06-2003, 12:11 PM

Yeah, I saw that, I was hoping that I might be able to use it with Linux. . . Bah!

alypius · 06-06-2003, 12:44 PM

Okay, I'm way too lazy to bother about fucking with this thing to make it work with Linux, so I'm just going to drop it into a windows box that I'm about to give to a friend of mine, so a more general question:

What's a good RAID controller that is known to work with linux? Any recommendations as far as price/where to buy/usability are welcome. Thanks. :-)

ckeeper · 06-06-2003, 02:50 PM

For me I got a RocketRAID 133 from HighPoint. (http://www.highpoint-tech.com)

They provide an opensource driver for linux so building the module is more easy.
I own it for now 2 weeks in a Redhat 7.3 system and got no problem.

The price: 140CA so something like 100/110US

Hope this will help you.

cyberskye · 06-06-2003, 04:27 PM

RH 8 and 9 (maybe earlier versions) you can set the raid up at install.

RAIDTOOLS http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raidtools/ I'm sure there are others