IDE controller card and Fedora Core 3

[Terry R. Grier]

Robin Bowes wrote:

> Langdon Stevenson wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>
> Langdon,
>
> Contrary to what has already been said, I believe that you should be 
> fine runing Samba on RAID5 with a PII 400. Sure, it's not going to set 
> the world on fire but, once the array has built the CPU should be 
> plenty fast enough to keep up with updates.
>
> I would echo the recommendation to keep the disks on separate 
> controllers; if you put two on the same channel then one disk failing 
> will most likely lock up the channel resulting in you losing two disks 
> and therefore your whole array.
>
> I can't offer any advice regarding whether or not the chipset is 
> supported, but if you've got the cards and disks why not connect it 
> all up and attempt an install?
>
> Personally, I run a 6x250GB Maxtor SATA drives on 2 x Promise SATA150 
> TX4 controllers. I have partitioned each drive identically with a 
> 1.5GB partition (/dev/sd[abcdef]1) and a 248.5 GB (/dev/sd[abcdef]2). 
> It is not possible to boot of RAID5 so I created a RAID1 mirror from 
> /dev/sd[ad]1 and installed the base system there. I then created an 
> huge RAID5 array from /dev/sd[abcdef] and used lvm to create logical 
> volumes for /usr (10GB), /var (5GB) and /home (915GB). I mounted these 
> and migrated /usr and /var off the root partition.
>
> Hope this is useful,
>
> R.

I will not get to techo .. since I am not .... but I have a machine 
running FC3 ... older Dell PII 400 - 192ram.  that runs gnome just 
fine... it is a little slow at times.. but it is better than XP.

T