Re: PCI internal SATA cards?

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:26:19AM -0400, Andreas Wrede wrote:
>
> On 06-Apr-09, at 02:18 , George Michaelson wrote:
>>
>> is GPT mature enough, that software raid on GPT is viable? Because I  
>> am very very very scared of being exposed to 'you are locked to this  
>> raid card, this physical order of disk' problems, and GPT sounds like 
>> in principle, it avoids that
>
> I just rebuilt a backup server with a 6 drive RAID(frame) 10 setup.  The 
> Asus P5Q motherboard supplies 6 SATA ports, plus I added a 2 port ATA 
> card for the (older) boot drive and it's mirror.

Andreas,

In your description, I did not see how you kept the dk(4) units from
attaching to different GPT partitions?  Do you have a custom kernel
configuration that attaches each dkN to a particular GUID, or does your
raidframe configuration somehow do that?

Dave

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