[mythtv-users] RocketRAID Cards, was: OT: help selecting drives for server

Brent Norris brent at brentnorris.net
Wed May 20 18:04:48 UTC 2009


Brian Wood wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 May 2009 07:32:00 Jon Bishop wrote:
>> On May 18, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Nasa wrote:
>>>> 8-port cards are either PCI-X or PCIExpress for that reason.
>>> It's a HighPoint Technologies, RocketRaid 2320
>> I believe that with those HighPoint cards, you can use them as
>> controller cards without using the RAID function. I know it was true
>> of my RocketRaid IDE raid cards.
> 
> Yes, that's what I was doing. It worked, but it could not use the latest 
> modes. It was a little strange, Linux saw the drives, but as sde, sdg, sdi 
> and sdk, instead of a,b,c,d. Not really a problem, just odd.
> 
> There is apparently an open source driver to use the RAID functions of the 
> card, I never played with that.
> 
> But since I had a 133Mhz. PCI-X slot, I wanted to get a 64-bit card for better 
> performance. If you are using 32-bit slots, the RocketRaid is an option if 
> you already have one, but I wouldn't buy one specifically for Linux, since 
> software RAID works just as well or better with a cheaper card.
> 
> Of course the OSS driver may work better than software RAID, but I don't know 
> about that. Personally I doubt it, but I have no data to back up that 
> opinion.
> 
  It sounds like it is actually a FakeRAID card.  If that is the case 
you are probably better off using the Software RAID functions of Linux. 
  *In my experience*

Brent


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