[WBEL-users] ATA Raid Controllers

[J. Abelardo Gutierrez]

William Hooper wrote:

>Milan Kerslager said:
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>>Promise is very cheap. 3Ware is a little bit expensive. But yes - if you
>>use WhiteBox as true Enterprise solution... :-)
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>At least in some cases Promise has only provided drivers (they aren't in
>the kernel) for the one kernel that ships with a Red Hat version.  If you
>try to upgrade to an errata kernel you are out of luck.  I would do a lot
>of research before thinking about buying a Promise Raid solution.
>
>Personally, I'm just saying the heck with it and using the kernel's
>software raid (mirroring in my case).
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We use promise without any problems here in my work, is true that you 
have to recompile their partial dirvers (something like nvidia drivers, 
part binary part source).  I also had to make a custom driver's floppy 
for the instalation.  but has been using in a numbre of our servers 
first with RHL9.0 and now with WBEL3.0 without any problem at all.  Also 
there is a "native" dirver in 2.6.x so in the future it will be easier.

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