Got the 3ware, awesome card wicked fast!

Im lucky enough to live in a town with a vendor that stocks the good stuff.

-Drew

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ajay Sharma Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 5:01 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need a CONFIRMED working hardware sata raid10 card

Drew Weaver wrote:

Just need to make sure I can plug it in and go..

3ware drivers have been in the vanilla kernel sources since early in the

2.4 days. So they are usually detected during the install and look like

any other SCSI drive (/dev/sda in my case)

--Ajay

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Will McDonald Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 11:27 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need a CONFIRMED working hardware sata raid10

card

On 12/08/05, Drew Weaver drew.weaver@thenap.com wrote:

...

       Does anyone know of a card that actually works with CentOS

4

...

that supports Raid10? I don't think CentOS support software raid 10

from the

...

installer.

We've got a 3ware 8006-2LP [1] running under WBEL so the rest of that family should be fine under CentOS too. Took a little bit of pissing about under FC1 to get it working properly but then we just tar-ed everything off the internal disks onto SATA disks while we rebuilt the box.

We just wanted it for JBOD which is why we plumped for the lower port capacity card but one of the cards with a higher port count should serve you well.

The CLI's great (though readline support would be nice ;)). Does exactly what you'd want it to, you can rescan the bus, add and remove disks on-the-fly if they're in appropriate hot-swap bays (with one or 2 provisos for non-JBOD). Docs for the CLI's features for the 7/8000 series (9000 series uses different software) are here...

http://www.3ware.com/support/UserDocs/CLI_UG.pdf

3ware also have a 4 disk drive, 3 5.25" drive bay drive cage [2] available, though we used 2 Vantec EZ-Swap SATA bays. The Vantec bays are a *little* flimsy but do the job well enough.

Will.

[1] http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp [2] http://www.3ware.com/products/ata.asp [3] http://www.vantecusa.com/product-storage.html (MRK-200ST-BK) _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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