CentOS - Jan 2008 - Anyone know of complete hardware solution based IDE Raid Controllers?

Years ago Accusys made an IDE raid controller that presented itself as 
one drive to the BIOS, making the unit completely OS agnostic.
Anything like that out there, anymore?

Cheers,
Brett.

Brett Davidson <brett at net24.co.nz> wrote:
>>
Years ago Accusys made an IDE raid controller that presented itself as
one drive to the BIOS, making the unit completely OS agnostic.
Anything like that out there, anymore?
<<

Dunno, but if you're desparate to get one, I still have an ACS-7500 IDE
RAID kit, new in box, that I never used. It's just sitting on the shelf.

Best,

--- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP
[http://www.lesbell.com.au]
Tel: +61 2 9451 1144
FreeWorldDialup: 800909

On Jan 9, 2008 2:44 PM, Brett Davidson <brett at net24.co.nz>
wrote:
> Years ago Accusys made an IDE raid controller that presented itself as
> one drive to the BIOS, making the unit completely OS agnostic.
> Anything like that out there, anymore?
We have several Promise hardware RAID controllers that fit that
description.  The IDE based ones are (I believe) no longer in
production -- the newest ones use SATA drives.  They present to the
BIOS as a single SCSI device.

Brett Davidson wrote:
> Years ago Accusys made an IDE raid controller that presented itself as
> one drive to the BIOS, making the unit completely OS agnostic.
> Anything like that out there, anymore?
Not sure what you mean by IDE ? Perhaps you mean legacy ATA / PATA
drives ? if so, the 3ware 7000 series does that, and is well supported
on CentOS.

However, If you are building something new, might be well worth just
getting SATA drives with an Areca 12xx or 11xx - or a 3ware 9550 ( or
better ) HBA

-- 
Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq

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> 
> Years ago Accusys made an IDE raid controller that presented 
> itself as one drive to the BIOS, making the unit completely 
> OS agnostic.
> Anything like that out there, anymore?
> 
> Cheers,
> Brett.
> 
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3ware is arguably the best....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116036

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=50001642+4000041
0+1193212548&name=IDE&SpeTabStoreType=0

Brett Davidson wrote:
> Years ago Accusys made an IDE raid controller that presented itself as 
> one drive to the BIOS, making the unit completely OS agnostic.
> Anything like that out there, anymore?
3ware has some - but note that you still need kernel driver support 
(which Linux has) since you only use bios for booting.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com