[mythtv-users] NAS RAID 5 for MythTv

[Stroller]

On 8 Feb 2007, at 20:52, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
> ...
> Yes, I have a 5x320GB RAID-5 on a 9500S-12.  One of the drives is
> currently out and RMAd to Seagate, so I'm running with only 4 drives.
>
> I didn't have to power down the server to pull the drive - the RAID  
> card
> had already bypassed the drive because it was throwing errors.

That's very useful to hear.

What are the drivers like for the 9500? OSS?
Written by the manufacturer? Part of the main kernel tree?

I have an old Compaq Proliant 6500 running as a home server at the  
moment, but I haven't been able to migrate all my services to it  
because of some glitches which I just don't seem to be able to track  
down. My best guess is that either my hardware is flaky or simply  
that Linux no longer properly supports well such an old & obscure  
system. Certainly some of the diagnostic utilities don't work very  
well - I don't think it's possible to determine drive status under  
Linux - and you can't spin down the (very loud) fans. Simply put life  
would be easier if I were able to replace it and drive space would be  
cheaper using SATA.

I'd be very interested to hear any other recommendations for an SATA  
hardware RAID card that supports hot-swap & can be fully configured  
under Linux. Although (considering the typical £1:$1 import rate  
conversion) I'd prefer to pay less than $309, that price is  
acceptable and far more important is driver support. I'd like a hot- 
swap card that can easily be queried for driver status using the CLI,  
logs errors to syslog and which can be expected to be supported under  
Linux forever & a day (I thought I might look at some of those with  
OpenBSD support, reasoning these cards are likely to have open driver  
documentation & good Linux support, too).

Stroller.