Upgrading RH9 Kernel and Promise SATA Raid

[Simon Weller]

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 03:00 pm, Craig Kelley wrote:
> Simon Weller wrote:
> >Adaptec do some nice controllers, but stay away from the cheaper ones, as
> > they often use third party chipsets from the likes of Promise.
> >I don't have a lot of experience with Mylex cards, although from memory
> > some of them use Symbios based chipsets, and I haven't had a good run
> > with them either.
> >
> >Those two distributors you mentioned in regards to 3ware are master
> > channel distributors. You will find 3ware products available through most
> > general distributors as they buy their product from their upstream.
>
> Adaptec's aacraid controllers are horrible with kernel/bios matching.
> We currently have 30-some-odd Dell Poweredge 2650's with Perc3/Di
> controllers.  You can only run BIOS XXX with kernel YYY from Redhat 7.3
> and such (hence fedora-legacy -- ;-).  We hate them, and are planning on
> using LSI (megaraid series) from here on out.
>

LSI gear looks pretty nice, haven't had the chance to play with it much yet 
though.

- Si
> As for IDE; we've used 3ware twice, and have been impressed.

-- 
Simon Weller LPIC-2
Systems Engineer
NZServers LTD
http://www.nzservers.com/
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