Re: [Staffslug] July Meeting 2010 - 5th July
I haven't tried it with 1TB disks yet, but certainly 500GB models worked
out of the box.
After the array degraded (one of the disks seems to have had a PCB
failure) and I purchased a new disk, I was unable to rebuild from the
remaining good disk with either the BIOS, any form of Linux tool (dmraid
has limited support for controller rebuild functions - mostly limited to
Intel controllers) or indeed with Windows 7.
So I think until I can justify a nice hardware RAID controller, I'll be
sticking with mdraid. I had some fun making that work, but it wasn't
really mdraid's fault (my ignorance of UUIDs) but it's working just fine
now doing the same job - mirroring my disks - as the fakeRAID controller
was with dmraid. :)
By all means, get it working - it's an interesting experience.
Particularly if you wish to dual boot with Windows, booting from the
same array. But from a long-term dmraid perspective, it's a nightmare if
it goes wrong.
HTH!
Tom
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 20:34 +0100, Chris Snow wrote:
Cheers Tom. Interesting! Was toying with the option of sw raid with
my two
1tg drives. (I had to flash the firmware for the controller with someone's
hack just to get the controller to acknowledge their existence!)
Chris.
On 22 June 2010 20:14, Tom Hill <tom(a)ninjabadger.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 19:17 +0100, Chris Snow wrote:
> > Server 10.04 not handling my A7N8X deluxe's Silicon Image SATA raid
> > card.
>
> I may be able to help there, if I'm not at the meeting and they aren't
> able to solve it.
>
> Though from personal experience with the same controller, I'll push you
> away from using it. Fine when it works, bad when it goes wrong!
>
> Tom
>
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