[CoLoCo] SATA RAID controller

[Carl J. Richell]

----- "Jim Hutchinson" <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Carl J. Richell < carl at system76.com >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Jim,
> 
> That 3ware card works perfectly in Ubuntu - I believe from Edgy and
> up. The cheap ones generally aren't any good (highpoint, etc.). 3ware
> is true hardware RAID whereas most other cards are software RAID.
> 
> Cheers,
> Carl
> 
> 
> Thanks for the info. Works with Ubuntu is a definite must as is a true
> hardware RAID. I'm using software now and have not been able to set it
> up right. So I guess something closer to $100 is probably not an
> option?
> 
> -jim

probably not... With the 3ware card you configure raid using the cards utility - raid 0 or 1 with the two port card.  Ubuntu sees the array as a hard drive during installation just as though you were installing to a single disk.  couldn't be simpler.  You can also take advantage of the cards management capability (3dm2) with this package:

http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian/pool/restricted/3/3ware-3dm2-binary-amd64/

Carl