Re: Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit?

At 04:06 AM 10/17/2005, Andy wrote:
>Hi to all,
>
>We have a Fujitsu Siemens Econel 200 Server. 2x Intel Xeon 2.8, 2x 
>SATA HDD. Suse 9.1 64 Prof is installed.
>
>At the moment we are using a software raid, but we want to buy 2 
>more HDD's and implement a 0+1 or 1+0 RAID.
>I looked over and over about raid controllers, have found from 120 
>EURO's  to 1000 EURO's but there seems to be a little problematic 
>the Suse 64 driver.
>
>A very convenient driver would be the
>Promise FastTrack S150 TX4 or
>SX4 controller
>but I still don't know if the drivers are quite functional.
>
>The tx4 seems faster as the sx4 but has no 64 driver.
>
>We had in the past some problems with hardware raid controller on suse.
>
>Does anyone uses some good raid controllers and could give me some 
>informations?
>
>I have been using 3ware sata raid on two different machines here at 
>work with amd 64 cpu's in them with no problem. suse has the 3ware 
>driver built in for years now. been using 3ware raid cards for years 
>also with no problems. now I am not sure what they cost in 
>EURO's  since im in the US.


jack


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