On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Wayne Steenburg wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:10, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > I'm looking at purchasing an Adaptec 2100S SCSI RAID card. The RAID array on > > this device will be the only drives in the system, so the Fedora installation CD > > needs to be able to recognize it, install to it and summarily boot to it. > > > > Anyone know if support for the card is built in by default? I've seen > > posts saying that it is not, and also come across a custom I2O boot disk for Red > > Hat 7.x. All this is leading me to question whether or not I should purchase > > this card if I want a hassle-free install. > > > > Anyone have any experience with it? > > > > If it's _not_ a great card, anyone have any recommendations for a 32-bit PCI > > SCSI RAID controller with excellent Linux support? I suppose I will look at AMI > > MegaRAID cards just in case. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > I'm not sure about the 2100S, but I know that the 3ware cards will boot > under Linux. The crucial aspect of a raid card under Linux is whether > or not it offers true hardware raid meaning the card does all the > processing. Most "raid" cards are software driven and can only be used > under Linux after the appropriate module(s) have been loaded. Is 3Ware making SCSI RAID cards, now? -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
