CentOS - Sep 2004 - 3Ware Escalade 9500S controller question

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Greetings folks,

I'm currently redoing my home server as one of the hard drives in my
RAID-1 array went down and I'm going to replace the lot of it with a
3Ware Escalade 9500S RAID capable card and four Seagate 200GB SATA
drives.  These drives are supposedly the coolest and quietest SATA
drives available (better than the Maxtors I had anyway) and the capacity
upgrade on the server is worth the $$$ at this point.  I'm planning on
running them in RAID-5 for maximum disk space and performance.

Are there any 3Ware Escalade/SATA issues I should be aware of when
building this new server utilizing CentOS-3?  The card was supposedly
supported under RH9, so I figured RHEL3 (or clones) would be fine.

Thanks in advance for the feedback,

- --Shawn

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- -- Shawn M. Jones
<smj at littleprojects.org>
http://www.littleprojects.org
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You have to recompile
the driver from source every time you do a kernel update. Otherwise works great
for me. Dont forget to do optimizations to get max performance, there''s
some simple ones on 3ware''s site that make a nice
difference.</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Greetings folks,<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>I''m currently redoing my home
server as one of the hard drives in my<br>
RAID-1 array went down and I''m going to replace the lot of it with
a<br>
3Ware Escalade 9500S RAID capable card and four Seagate 200GB SATA<br>
drives. &nbsp;These drives are supposedly the coolest and quietest
SATA<br>
drives available (better than the Maxtors I had anyway) and the
capacity<br>
upgrade on the server is worth the $$$ at this point. &nbsp;I''m
planning on<br>
running them in RAID-5 for maximum disk space and performance.<br>
</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>Are there any 3Ware Escalade/SATA issues
I should be aware of when<br>
building this new server utilizing CentOS-3? &nbsp;The card was
supposedly<br>
supported under RH9, so I figured RHEL3 (or clones) would be fine.<br>
</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>Thanks in advance for the
feedback,<br>
</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>- --Shawn<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>- --<br>
- -- Shawn M. Jones<br>
<smj@littleprojects.org><br>
http://www.littleprojects.org<br>
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On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Scott Lewis wrote:
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> You have to recompile the driver from source every time you do a kernel
> update. Otherwise works great for me. Dont forget to do optimizations to
> get max performance, there's some simple ones on 3ware's site that
make a
> nice difference.
Excellent!  Thanks Scott.  I can't wait until the rest of my drives come 
in so I can get started.  Looks like staying with CentOS over going to FC2 
is the right course of action for this server!  :-)

Now, I'll have to look into how to "upgrade" the firewall from
Whitebox...

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-- Shawn M. Jones
<smj at littleprojects.org>
http://www.littleprojects.org