[mythtv-users] OT -- Raid Card

[Doug Young]

Yeah...he's hoping to keep his data.  I was hoping that someone might
know where I can look up "known to be compatible" for him...
-- 
Doug


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Brian Wood<beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 August 2009 17:50:39 Doug Young wrote:
>> Sorry for being off topic here, as this doesn't pertain to my myth
>> box, but I know there's a lot of raid knowledge here, so I'm hoping
>> someone has some experience...
>>
>> I have a friend who is experiencing data loss on his FreeBSD
>> fileserver using an intel SRCU42X card.  It appears this is an LSI
>> MegaRaid card rebranded Intel, as it uses the amr driver in FreeBSD,
>> not the iir.  He's looking for a drop in replacement.  Other than
>> buying that exact card again, does anyone have experience with what
>> might be compatible?
>>
> The big question is, does he hope to keep the data stored on the array? My
> experience has been that unless you replace the controller with the same one,
> or one derived from it and known to be compatible, you will have to re-create
> the array, losing the data it held.
>
> This is the main reason I moved to Linux software RAID, the array will run on
> any Linux system, no hardware incompatibilities.
>
> The CPU overhead of even RAID is indignificant with today's CPUs, in fact it
> was so even a decade ago.
>
> Sorry I can't suggest a card, pretty much any card should work if you con't
> care about the data, but if you do it will probably have to be a same or at
> least similar replacement card.
>
>
>
> --
> Brian Wood
> beww at beww.org
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