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Hello, Has anyone here installed CentOS on a Dell Poweredge with a SAS 5IR controller? Does it work? With what driver? Is this real hardware RAID? Thanks, -- Francois Caen, RHCE, CCNA SpiderMaker, LLC

Looking at the Dell PowerEdge 440SC web page for Colombia. The box will have two 250 GB SATA drives. The HD controller is: SAS 5IR SAS,Internal Raid Adapter (SAS5IR) for HD Configuration) the options are: (1) Add-in SAS5iR (SATA/SAS Controller)-RAID 0 (ASASR0) (2) Onboard SATA, 2 Drives connected to Onboard SATA Controller No RAID (MST2) (3) Add-in SAS5iR (SATA/SAS Controller) which supports 1-2 Hard Drives-No RAID (ASAS)...

Hello, I''m using Xen 3.0 in a Debian Linux Etch / Dell PowerEdge 860 / 4GB RAM / Pentium 4 Dual Core 3Ghz. The machine is using a RAID Controller SAS 5iR, configured with two 500GB disks in RAID-1 (mirroring). I was getting I/O throughput problems, but then I''ve searched the Internet and find a solution saying that I needed to enable the write cache on the RAID controller. Well, my I/O problems have gone in the Dom0 and some DomU, but in on...

On 29 August 2007, "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker at medallion.com> wrote: > Message: 39 <snip> > I wouldn't worry too much about the OS HD configuration, you are > always going to want RAID1 for the OS, whether software or hardware. > > Reason I say not to worry too much about the OS HD config is because > you are almost certainly going to put the