I've been burned by Sata not working on an Asus motherboard (nVidia / nForce) and need to select something that will work for a fairly light duty web/mail/sql server. How do I go about finding out if a specific motherboard will work with sata software raid and Centos 4.4 (or 5.x when it's settled down).
Cheers;
Alex V.
On 4/23/07, Alex @ Avantel Systems alex@avantel.ca wrote:
I've been burned by Sata not working on an Asus motherboard (nVidia / nForce) and need to select something that will work for a fairly light duty web/mail/sql server. How do I go about finding out if a specific motherboard will work with sata software raid and Centos 4.4 (or 5.x when it's settled down).
Instead of buying a motherboard, you can add a SATA controller card. I have a Promise SATA300 TX4 PCI card ($55) and set up software RAID1 on CentOS 4.
Akemi
to further add..google fraid. That's what mobo based raid is. if you want to use software raid turn off bios raid and use the built in raid in the linux kernel and then your mobo(asus nforce board) will work jsut fine.
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On 4/23/07, Alex @ Avantel Systems alex@avantel.ca wrote:
I've been burned by Sata not working on an Asus motherboard (nVidia / nForce) and need to select something that will work for a fairly light duty web/mail/sql server. How do I go about finding out if a specific motherboard will work with sata software raid and Centos 4.4 (or 5.x when it's settled down).
Instead of buying a motherboard, you can add a SATA controller card. I have a Promise SATA300 TX4 PCI card ($55) and set up software RAID1 on CentOS 4.
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William Warren wrote:
to further add..google fraid. That's what mobo based raid is. if you want to use software raid turn off bios raid and use the built in raid in the linux kernel and then your mobo(asus nforce board) will work jsut fine.
However you want to characterise on-board raid, don't loose sight of the fact that its presence generally has implications for how many disks you can attach before going to add-on cards.
Sometimes four connectors (counted at the disk end) are not enough.
What you do with all those disks is a separate issue. Most of the peecees I see advertised only have one disk, so obviously on-bord RAID, if it exists, isn't being used.
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On 4/23/07, Alex @ Avantel Systems alex@avantel.ca wrote:
I've been burned by Sata not working on an Asus motherboard (nVidia / nForce) and need to select something that will work for a fairly light duty web/mail/sql server. How do I go about finding out if a specific motherboard will work with sata software raid and Centos 4.4 (or 5.x when it's settled down).
Instead of buying a motherboard, you can add a SATA controller card. I have a Promise SATA300 TX4 PCI card ($55) and set up software RAID1 on CentOS 4.
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On Sunday 22 April 2007 19:10, William Warren wrote:
to further add..google fraid. That's what mobo based raid is. if you want to use software raid turn off bios raid and use the built in raid in the linux kernel and then your mobo(asus nforce board) will work jsut fine.
I've done that with no joy - perhaps the Asus A8N-VM board is the problem? I can get the sata disks detected but writing to them fails during the install.
Alex ====
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On 4/23/07, Alex @ Avantel Systems alex@avantel.ca wrote:
I've been burned by Sata not working on an Asus motherboard (nVidia / nForce) and need to select something that will work for a fairly light duty web/mail/sql server. How do I go about finding out if a specific motherboard will work with sata software raid and Centos 4.4 (or 5.x when it's settled down).
Instead of buying a motherboard, you can add a SATA controller card. I have a Promise SATA300 TX4 PCI card ($55) and set up software RAID1 on CentOS 4.
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Akemi Yagi spake the following on 4/23/2007 3:42 PM:
On 4/23/07, Alex @ Avantel Systems alex@avantel.ca wrote:
I've been burned by Sata not working on an Asus motherboard (nVidia / nForce) and need to select something that will work for a fairly light duty web/mail/sql server. How do I go about finding out if a specific motherboard will work with sata software raid and Centos 4.4 (or 5.x when it's settled down).
Instead of buying a motherboard, you can add a SATA controller card. I have a Promise SATA300 TX4 PCI card ($55) and set up software RAID1 on CentOS 4.
Akemi
But there is a thread about some failures with promise sata cards on 5.0, so you might look further, or find a sata card with a different chipset.
Alex @ Avantel Systems wrote:
I've been burned by Sata not working on an Asus motherboard (nVidia / nForce) and need to select something that will work for a fairly light duty web/mail/sql server. How do I go about finding out if a specific motherboard will work with sata software raid and Centos 4.4 (or 5.x when it's settled down).
Cheers;
Alex V.
Here is a link to a company that makes Linux systems. You can use their systems as a reference to build your GNU/Linux-compatible systems.
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