On a related note, Dell will sell you a 4-port IDE raid card with their 600SC servers. The card is recognized under linux, but Dell doesn't have management software (like 3ware's 3DM software) for the card that is supported under linux. I don't know who the original manufacturer of the Dell card is. The card can be configured during boot up (the card has it's own bios, just like the 3ware cards and I'd image like the Adaptec cards), but once the system is up you have no way of finding out if one of the drives has failed or of managing the raid without a reboot to get back to the bios on the card. Anyway, the point is that you need to make sure the card works under linux and that the management software also works under linux. One doesn't necessarily imply the other. As was mentioned, 3ware's 3DM software is excellent and is supported under linux. I don't know about Adaptec's IDE raid cards or their management software as I haven't used them. Jeff On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Thomas Hudak wrote: > David Phillips wrote: > > >natecars at real-time.com writes: > > > > > >>>I am looking for recommendations for an IDE RAID card that will run > >>>w/ either Fedora, or RHEL 3.0 > >>> > >>> > >>Highly recommend the 3ware cards. 3dm is pretty darn nice. > >> > >> > > > >Same here. They make the only IDE RAID cards worth buying. These people > >have good prices on 3ware products and good support: > > > >http://www.hypermicro.com/ > > > > > > > Not the *only* - Adaptec has ide/sata raid cards out... I'd be willing > to bet Adaptec's are as good if not better just from the decades of > scsi/raid cards they made before 3ware existed. > > Not only that but Adaptec has been jumping all over MB manufacturers to > put their sata raid chipsets onboard. > > http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/common/index.html?prodkey=customer_story_satamboards&source=home_story2_satamboards&sess=no&language=English+US > http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/prodtechindex.html?cat=/Technology/Serial+ATA&source=menu > > I would say if you pickup a 3ware, or an Adaptec - you won't be sorry. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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