On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 09:55 -0400, Steven Stromer wrote: > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 13:54 -0400, Steven Stromer wrote: > >> I have been closely following a great HOWTO at: > >> http://howtos.linuxbroker.com/howtoreader.shtml?file=Linux-Promise-RAID1-HOWTO.html > >> > >> to install a Promise FastTrack66 hardware RAID card into my FC5 box for > >> RAID1. I have managed to plow through the steps up to editing lilo.conf, > >> but FC5 uses GRUB as the default bootloader. Would anyone be able to > >> walk me through the steps for editing grub.conf from the point where > >> this article focuses on lilo.conf? > >> > >> I have read the GRUB documentation, as well as the documentation on a > >> few other forums, but am still struggling a bit, and don't want to go > >> off in the wrong direction at this point (if I haven't already)! > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Steven Stromer > >> > > > > OT question: FastTrack66 is a semi-hardware RAID (read: Most of the work > > is being handled by the CPU) and it is far from being fast//stable/etc. > > Why not setup a fully software RAID setup instead? > > > > Gilboa > > > I have a bunch of identical Pentium III boxes here in mint condition. I > am trying to use them to the best of their humble ability, but only with > the hardware I have on hand; I don't want to make any financial > investment into them. I have a bunch of brand new FastTrack66 cards > sitting around. They are faster than the controllers on the > motherboards, as I undestand, I can attach each drive to a separate > channel, and the only other option is to throw the cards away. I haven't > had any negative experiences with these controllers, and they have only > glowing reviews on older web pages. Is there a history of problems that > I should know about? Finally, I am enjoying learning more about drives > and drive configuration during this process. So far, it has been very > educational for me. If you think it's a terrible idea to run these, I'll > take your advisement, but if you agree with my reasoning for using them, > I'd really appreciate your assistance. > > Thanks, > Steven > On slower/older machines, FastTrack66 might indeed be faster. I'd suggest you build a "hardware" array, testing, and then build a software array and test it. If the software array performs within 10% of the semi-hardware one, use it instead. (You can still use the IDE connectors on the FastTrack66, though... just don't build them into an active RAID0/1 array.) - Gilboa
