Re: Xen, grub and suggestions for a hardware RAID?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 02:32:20AM +0100, Johan Ihren wrote:
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> So I'm lazy. Or stupid. Or both. I did try to follow the instructions  
> previously pointed at for how to configure RAIDframe with grub and  
> xen but I messed it up somehow. And on another box I installed  
> RAIDframe (w/o grub or xen) only to have it run fine, but always come  
> up with dirty parity after a reboot. Haven't figured out why yet  
> (suggestions?). So I'm clearly not up to speed on RAIDframe yet.
> 
> And as I'm short on time and also interested in hot-swap (this will  
> be a remote box where the ability to use remote hands to swap disks  
> on a running system would be really great) I'm contemplating my first  
> hardware RAID ever.
> 
> The system has 4 x SATA disks and I'm looking at either
> 
> * Adaptec 2410SA (supported by aac(4))
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> or
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> * 3ware Escalade 9500S-4LP (supported by twa(4) or twe(4), although  
> looking again that seems less than clear)

I have 2 9500S-8LP in a server here, it's fast (supported by
twa) and I didn't have any issues with theses so far. 

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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