[CentOS] Netcell RAID cards -- 2.6.12.3+ (or 13.2+?) ATA has NetCell support

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 21:43 -0600, Paul wrote:
> I was looking at them as a cheaper alternative to a 3ware cards for my
> MythTV/file server with an array of three drives.

A multimedia server is a very ideal solution for RAID-3/XL.

> The problem with the NetCell cards not having a monitoring tool to tell
> if a drive fails makes it much less attractive.

Yeah, that's the problem with using the ATA driver.  Now libata support
is still pending.  But I agree, NetCell doesn't seem to be keen on
developing such for Linux.  However, there are still kernel messages you
can trap.

> Maybe they will release the tools by the time CentOS 5 comes out and I
> can migrate from FC2 to that ... maybe V4L with be built in EL5 by that
> time.

I wouldn't hold your breath.  It's highly more likely that someone will
adapt various libata functions to detect NetCell alerts, or maybe an
adhoc set of scripts to pull strings out of kernel messages.


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