[CentOS] SW-RAID on 2 SATA controllers

[Peter Arremann]

On Friday 24 June 2005 22:01, Dag Wieers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would it be advisable to use SW-RAID using 2 different SATA controllers.
> My system happens to have both a VIA VT8237 and SIL3114 SATA controller,
> and I thought for both performance reason and redundancy using both for a
> 2 disk RAID1 array would be best.
>
> But it's possible that SW-RAID does not like or cannot overcome problems
> with such a setup or that one of these drivers is known to have issues.
>
> Any insight is welcome :)
I have done it in the past with with mediocre success... drive failure brought 
down the box - but once I disconnected the drive everything worked off the 
mirror. Other than that, it seemed to do its job. But then again, on the web 
you hear from all the people with issues with linux software raid - sata or 
not.. 

If you have the money and its something important, buy a hw raid controller - 
3ware 8006-2 controllers are fairly cheap (around $130) and so far I haven't 
had any issues with any of the ones I use. They are really worth their 
money... and no, I don't work for them :-) 


Peter.