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)