IDE controller card and Fedora Core 3

[Langdon Stevenson]

Thanks for the feedback John

I had a look at Clark Connect, but they don't really have anything to 
offer me.  I am attempting to build a cheap Samba file server with large 
capacity and reasonable redundancy.  Throughput isn't an issue, and I 
don't need any services other than Samba on it.

I can't justify forking out for a new piece of hardware, but have a 
bunch of components that will do the job if I can get them to play nicely.

 From you reply I take it that IDE controllers that use a Promise HPT 
(HighPoint?) chipset are supported by Linux.  Is that the case?

Regards,
Langdon


John Summerfield wrote:
> On Monday 06 December 2004 11:12, Langdon Stevenson wrote:
> 
>>I am attempting to build a file server using a Pentium II 400, for my
>>home office.
> 
> For software, I recommend you look at Clark Connect - www.clarkconnect.org. 
> It's a compilation of Linux software aimed at your needs and contains 
> software not included in FC/RHEL.
> 
>>I want to build a RAID 5 array for data integrity.  I have four 160Gig
>>Western digital hard drives, and a couple of spare IDE controller cards
>>that I would like to use.  The controller cards are the issue.