[mythtv-users] Anyone using RocketRAID?

[Roger Heflin]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:58 PM, David Durham, Jr. wrote:
> 
>> Here's the product description from newegg:
>>
>>  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115048
>>
>> Hardware RAID from $325.  Says it supports RAID 6, and works with the
>> Linux 2.6.  Anyone using one of these and have some comments on its
>> quality?  I didn't know you could do RAID 6 with just 4 drives, or am
>> I missing something about this product.  Looks to me that it only
>> supports 4 drives.
> 
> Looks like you can have more than 4 drives by using the "multi- 
> adapter" support, allowing up to four controllers to work together.
> 
> beww

Be careful that it does not require a special driver (not including with 
kernel.org) as it is sometimes difficult to get vendors to update there own 
special driver (if not in kernel.org) to handle new kernels, so you could be 
limited in the kernels that you can use, and/or having to port the driver 
yourself to the new kernel.

That one may use a kernel.org driver, but make sure, or you may end up with a 
card that won't work on later kernels.

                           Roger