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&gt; 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Staffslug mailing list > > Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk > > http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug > > > _______________________________________________ > Staffslug mailing list > Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk > http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug