On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Richard Harding wrote:
> I'm looking at replacing an old P3 server with a new Dell 2850. I want 
> to setup a raid 5 on it and as I've never setup raid on Linux before I 
> wanted to see if anyone has had any problems with the 39160 SCSI 
> controller this box seems to have with debian sarge? I have 2 other 
> debian machines on the network, but they're small boxes running backup 
> web/dns/squid services and this machine is my main email/web/spam 
> filtering box so I really want to beef up the hardware while I have the 
> chance with this new box.

An Adaptec 39160 should work just fine with Linux (including Debian, of 
course). On the other hand, you're *much* better off buying the hardware 
RAID controller for that box, and using that, instead of doing software 
RAID on the 39160. It'll make recovery when a disk dies much cleaner.

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