Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID" 1 card on Centos box

On Mar 9, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Therese Trudeau wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I'm considering setting up my Centos Desktop machine for RAID 1.  I  
> read a lot of good info at this site:http://linuxmafia.com/faq/ 
> Hardware/sata.html#intel-vitesse about differences in fakeraid and  
> real raid cards.
>

Discontinued chipset but  works fine:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816110002

Nice price!  $35/ 5 SATA drive support.  Fewer drives is a $21 card.

No drivers, you run the RAID from BIOS, it shows as an IDE volume for  
linux.  See the NewEgg comments for some tips.  Depending on the  
speed you need, it could be just great.

You need Windows to update the firmware.  Supports a handful of RAID  
types, but not RAID 5.  True hardware RAID though.

All the firmwares, manuals, utils are at:  http://www.soft-port.dk/

B