Years ago Accusys made an IDE raid controller that presented itself as one drive to the BIOS, making the unit completely OS agnostic. Anything like that out there, anymore?
Cheers, Brett.
On Jan 9, 2008 2:44 PM, Brett Davidson brett@net24.co.nz wrote:
Years ago Accusys made an IDE raid controller that presented itself as one drive to the BIOS, making the unit completely OS agnostic. Anything like that out there, anymore?
We have several Promise hardware RAID controllers that fit that description. The IDE based ones are (I believe) no longer in production -- the newest ones use SATA drives. They present to the BIOS as a single SCSI device.
Brett Davidson wrote:
Years ago Accusys made an IDE raid controller that presented itself as one drive to the BIOS, making the unit completely OS agnostic. Anything like that out there, anymore?
Not sure what you mean by IDE ? Perhaps you mean legacy ATA / PATA drives ? if so, the 3ware 7000 series does that, and is well supported on CentOS.
However, If you are building something new, might be well worth just getting SATA drives with an Areca 12xx or 11xx - or a 3ware 9550 ( or better ) HBA
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Brett Davidson Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:44 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Anyone know of complete hardware solution based IDE RaidControllers?
Years ago Accusys made an IDE raid controller that presented itself as one drive to the BIOS, making the unit completely OS agnostic. Anything like that out there, anymore?
Cheers, Brett.
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3ware is arguably the best....
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116036
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=50001642+400... 0+1193212548&name=IDE&SpeTabStoreType=0
Brett Davidson wrote:
Years ago Accusys made an IDE raid controller that presented itself as one drive to the BIOS, making the unit completely OS agnostic. Anything like that out there, anymore?
3ware has some - but note that you still need kernel driver support (which Linux has) since you only use bios for booting.
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