Drew Weaver
2005-Aug-12 15:07 UTC
[CentOS] Need a CONFIRMED working hardware sata raid10 card
Does anyone know of a card that actually works with CentOS 4 that supports Raid10? I don't think CentOS support software raid 10 from the installer. Thanks, -Drew -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050812/ab215629/attachment-0002.html>
Will McDonald
2005-Aug-12 15:26 UTC
[CentOS] Need a CONFIRMED working hardware sata raid10 card
On 12/08/05, Drew Weaver <drew.weaver at thenap.com> wrote:> > > Does anyone know of a card that actually works with CentOS 4 > that supports Raid10? I don't think CentOS support software raid 10 from the > installer.We've got a 3ware 8006-2LP [1] running under WBEL so the rest of that family should be fine under CentOS too. Took a little bit of pissing about under FC1 to get it working properly but then we just tar-ed everything off the internal disks onto SATA disks while we rebuilt the box. We just wanted it for JBOD which is why we plumped for the lower port capacity card but one of the cards with a higher port count should serve you well. The CLI's great (though readline support would be nice ;)). Does exactly what you'd want it to, you can rescan the bus, add and remove disks on-the-fly if they're in appropriate hot-swap bays (with one or 2 provisos for non-JBOD). Docs for the CLI's features for the 7/8000 series (9000 series uses different software) are here... http://www.3ware.com/support/UserDocs/CLI_UG.pdf 3ware also have a 4 disk drive, 3 5.25" drive bay drive cage [2] available, though we used 2 Vantec EZ-Swap SATA bays. The Vantec bays are a *little* flimsy but do the job well enough. Will. [1] http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp [2] http://www.3ware.com/products/ata.asp [3] http://www.vantecusa.com/product-storage.html (MRK-200ST-BK)
Drew Weaver
2005-Aug-12 16:29 UTC
[CentOS] Need a CONFIRMED working hardware sata raid10 card
Just need to make sure I can plug it in and go.. -Drew -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Will McDonald Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 11:27 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need a CONFIRMED working hardware sata raid10 card On 12/08/05, Drew Weaver <drew.weaver at thenap.com> wrote:> > > Does anyone know of a card that actually works with CentOS4> that supports Raid10? I don't think CentOS support software raid 10from the> installer.We've got a 3ware 8006-2LP [1] running under WBEL so the rest of that family should be fine under CentOS too. Took a little bit of pissing about under FC1 to get it working properly but then we just tar-ed everything off the internal disks onto SATA disks while we rebuilt the box. We just wanted it for JBOD which is why we plumped for the lower port capacity card but one of the cards with a higher port count should serve you well. The CLI's great (though readline support would be nice ;)). Does exactly what you'd want it to, you can rescan the bus, add and remove disks on-the-fly if they're in appropriate hot-swap bays (with one or 2 provisos for non-JBOD). Docs for the CLI's features for the 7/8000 series (9000 series uses different software) are here... http://www.3ware.com/support/UserDocs/CLI_UG.pdf 3ware also have a 4 disk drive, 3 5.25" drive bay drive cage [2] available, though we used 2 Vantec EZ-Swap SATA bays. The Vantec bays are a *little* flimsy but do the job well enough. Will. [1] http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp [2] http://www.3ware.com/products/ata.asp [3] http://www.vantecusa.com/product-storage.html (MRK-200ST-BK) _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Drew Weaver
2005-Aug-12 21:06 UTC
[CentOS] Need a CONFIRMED working hardware sata raid10 card
Got the 3ware, awesome card wicked fast! Im lucky enough to live in a town with a vendor that stocks the good stuff. -Drew -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Ajay Sharma Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 5:01 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need a CONFIRMED working hardware sata raid10 card Drew Weaver wrote:> Just need to make sure I can plug it in and go..3ware drivers have been in the vanilla kernel sources since early in the 2.4 days. So they are usually detected during the install and look like any other SCSI drive (/dev/sda in my case) --Ajay> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Will McDonald > Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 11:27 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need a CONFIRMED working hardware sata raid10card> > On 12/08/05, Drew Weaver <drew.weaver at thenap.com> wrote: > >> >> Does anyone know of a card that actually works with CentOS > > 4 > >>that supports Raid10? I don't think CentOS support software raid 10 > > from the > >>installer. > > > We've got a 3ware 8006-2LP [1] running under WBEL so the rest of that > family should be fine under CentOS too. Took a little bit of pissing > about under FC1 to get it working properly but then we just tar-ed > everything off the internal disks onto SATA disks while we rebuilt the > box. > > We just wanted it for JBOD which is why we plumped for the lower port > capacity card but one of the cards with a higher port count should > serve you well. > > The CLI's great (though readline support would be nice ;)). Does > exactly what you'd want it to, you can rescan the bus, add and remove > disks on-the-fly if they're in appropriate hot-swap bays (with one or > 2 provisos for non-JBOD). Docs for the CLI's features for the 7/8000 > series (9000 series uses different software) are here... > > http://www.3ware.com/support/UserDocs/CLI_UG.pdf > > 3ware also have a 4 disk drive, 3 5.25" drive bay drive cage [2] > available, though we used 2 Vantec EZ-Swap SATA bays. The Vantec bays > are a *little* flimsy but do the job well enough. > > Will. > > [1] http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp > [2] http://www.3ware.com/products/ata.asp > [3] http://www.vantecusa.com/product-storage.html (MRK-200ST-BK) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >_______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos