Just as a side note, I've had very good luck with 3ware EIDE raid controllers. Also, the one time I've had a drive fail (so far), after I stuck in the new drive the system booted completely while it was doing the rebuild. The system was obviously slower than normal until the rebuild was done, but it was up and running. My experience with the Promise eide raid controllers hasn't been nearly as good, nor my experience with software raid, although I admittedly haven't tried software raid under linux recently (not since the later 2.2 kernels). Jeff On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:48:25PM -0500, Scot Jenkins wrote: > > and it just worked. I'm almost certain a current Slackware (7.x and up) > > would have not trouble seeing the Promise PCI controller. > > I've also had 0 problems with promise PCI IDE controllers, and they're well > supported under linux. > > > I think you can buy these cards retail for about $20-25 at Microcenter, > > but check http://www.pricewatch.com/ or other online pricing sites before > > buying. > > Best Buy has them as well, last i checked. > > > > > If you plan to put more then 4 drives in your server or you want RAID > > capability, which you probably will with the bigger hard drives today, > > you should investigate IDE RAID controllers. I can't speak to them but > > I think others on the list have experience with them. > > Unfortunately, it's been nothing but bad experiences with the promise RAID > controllers. Personally I prefer software RAID since you're not sitting > at the POST screen waiting for it to rebuild. The performance is comparable > with a cheap IDE RAID controller as well, with more support. > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list