Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:32:31 +0200 (CEST) | From | Michael De Nil <> | Subject | Re: Promise PDC20378 Raid Accelerator |
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On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 07:24:34PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Michael De Nil wrote: > > >Can someone tell me if I will be able to run 2 SATA discs on a raid1 with > > >this chip, and if yes, what driver you would prefer? I am a litle bit > > >afraid for using non-stable drivers... ;) > > > > > > The all-open-source solution... Linux "md" raid, and Linux SATA drivers :) > > One caveat: you *may* have to create "one disk RAID-0" arrays of your > disks (which is equivalent to the single disk), in order to make the > SATA controller boot from the disk. So, with two disks, you would > create two RAID-0 arrays, each containing one disk. Silly really, but > at least I had to do this with the Promise TX4. > > Other than that; Standard Linux SATA drivers + Software RAID + LVM2 is a > beautiful all-open-source solution for cheap flexible and reliable > storage - my mom is using that ;) >
Thanks for the tip Jakob!
Can someone tell me if there is yet any support for hot swapping the sata drives?
Thanks
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