[KLUG Hardware] Re: SCSI card recommendation

[Bruce Smith]

> > I'm having a hard time locating them.  Got any URL's?
> 
> Yes, very much so.  I'm looking for one myself.

Cool.

> > I'm not sure I'd put one of these in a mission critical server, but 
> > it's a cheap way to do hardware RAID-0 or RAID-1 at my home.
> 
> 3Ware works for production servers quite well -- as long as you
> understand where it excels and how.  [ See my other post ]

I'm still a little leery about them after plugging one into a 
ECS K7S5A motherboard.  That didn't work, and Linux didn't know
any better.  Linux kept on using it, randomly corrupting data
until the entire system was trashed.  This happened multiple
times until I bought a different (more expensive ASUS) mobo.
Since then it's worked fine.

> > I wanted hardware mirroring and need a lot of disk space for KLUG
> > ISO images.
> 
> And 3Ware works great for that.

And it has been working great for that. (after switching mobo's :)

> > And it works fairly well, as long as it's plugged into a quality mobo.
> 
> Yes.  AMI BIOS sucks because of IRQ sharing issues.  On the ECS K7S5A,
> as long as you plug the card into a PCI slot that is not sharing an IRQ,
> you're okay.  If you don't, then the AMI BIOS just throws fits no matter
> what OS you're using.

I don't know if it was sharing an IRQ or not, but I know that 
I'll never plug a RAID card of any kind into that mobo again!

> I have a Tyan S2460 (dual-Athlon) with 64-bit PCI slots.  The board is
> sharing an IRQ and I'm having 0 issues.

It also works fine on my ASUS A7M266 (single Athlon).

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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