[mythtv-users] RAID on Fedora Core 3?

Anthony Vito anthony.vito at gmail.com
Tue Dec 21 21:20:11 UTC 2004


> OK, I think I've decided to do raid in linux's mdadmin tool.
> 
> So, now I just need to find a card or cards that will support 8 drives
> each with it's own channel. I have failed to find a non-raid card larger than
> a 2-channel card. All the ones more than 2 channels are labeled 'raid'.
> 
> I know many have warned against Promise, but I think that is mainly due to their
> use as raid devices. I know they do some 4 channel cards - do they work
> ok in that mode? I know the 2-channel 'RAID' card works as a plain IDE
> controller. Anyone have a 4-channel one? Anyone care to guess?
> 

Why do you need one without the "RAID" label? Pretty much everything
but the 3ware cards are only software RAID. So the label is just
marketing. You can run RAID 0 or 1 in linux on a 2 port card in
software far better then the "RAID driver" that will come with the
card.

I have a 4 channel promise SATA card .. ( the SX4 ?? ) I currently run
2 segate 200gig drives in RAID 1 with linux software raid on a
modified 2.6 kernel on top of Fedora core 2. It's perfectly fine,
happy, and fast. I don't use ports 3 or 4.. but I can't imagine any
issues with them. * shugs shoulders *

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Anthony Vito
anthony.vito at gmail.com


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