[CentOS] Re: Raidcore SATA support

[William Warren]

Raidcore is FRAID or software RAID.

Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:

> From: Mark Weaver <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com>
> 
>>Hi all,
>>I was wondering if anyone has tried and succeeded to use this 
>>controller. Its the bc4852 SATA controller. There's supposed to be 
>>support for it, but so far we've not been able to get the driver to load 
>>during the install and thus we've got no "valid drive" on which to load 
>>the OS.
> 
> 
> Last time I checked, but I could be wrong, Broadcom's RAIDCore solutions
> are FRAID.  They are very, very high-end FRAID designs (PCI-X, 8 channel),
> with lots of software IP for rebuild options, etc..., but still FRAID.  I've
> never personally tried the cards because they aren't any cheaper than
> 3Ware solutions.  But they claim integration tools with Linux's LVM/MD
> (I have no idea how these work) and should have at least ATA/SATA
> channel drivers for just a bunch of disks (JBOD) as with any ATA/SATA
> controller.
> 
> Luckily Broadcom's new IC for either PCIe x4 or PCI-X 1.0 is an intelligent,
> MIPS-based hardware solution for either SATA or new Serial Attached SCSI
> (SAS).  The pricing should be similar with the controller being under $60/1K
> quantity, but finally bring some serious performance to the table (along
> with up to 768MB of battery-backed DRAM).
> 
> 
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