motherboard with raid controller

[George Daflidis-Kotsis]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 04:26:10PM +0000, Papadogiannakis Vagelis wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:48:31 +0300 Giannis Vrentzos <gvre at forthnet.gr> wrote:
> 
> > Kalispera.
> > 
> > Psaxnw na agorasw ena m/b gia athlon xp me raid controller. Exei 
> > dokimasei kapoios kanena ?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Gvre
> 
> Mporei na leo kai malakia, alla etsi einai toulaxiston se ena pou eixa dei (de 8imamai pio though)
> 
> Oi raid controllers pou kikloforoun me tis mobos, einai ousiastika software raid controllers (afti ti douleia kanoun oi drivers ton win)

Toulaxiston to ABit KT7A-RAID pou exw egw, an kai metrio ws board, exei
hardware RAID controller.

Dhmiourgei to device mesw tou bios tou raid controller kai meta apla kaneis
install ta windows sto metadevice n' se ena partition tou metadevice.

Den 3erw ta upoloipa mobos ti kanoun.

To mono problhma einai pws den uposthrizoun ola ta raid modes, n' estw ta 3
basika, 0, 1 kai 5

> Isos na einai kalitera na pareis mia extra ultra ata 8000(!) karta kai kane software raid me to linuxaki :> to idio kai kalitero (toulaxiston se periptosi != mirroring) einai.

Se auto sumfwnw. To overhead tou software raid gia tetoiou eidous setups einai
mhdamino. Kai mhn 3exnas pws kalutera apo apopsh performance na pareis
8 x 36GB diskous se raid para 2 x 120GB se raid.

> Ektos an pas se akrivi REAL HARDWARE ilopoihsh, opou den ksero tipotaaaa kai ara den mporo na se boithiso.

Filika.

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[george daflidis-kotsis - systems admin,web/e-commerce - gdk at demon.net]