[Gllug] PCI-E RAID card for RHEL4/Fedora 5

[Garry Heaton]

Tethys wrote:
> Garry Heaton writes:
> 
>> Has anyone come across a PCI-E RAID card which will work with RHEL4 or
>>  Fedora 5? I'm looking to spend no more than £160 so if no PCI-E models
>>  then a PCI card would be good 2nd best. I'm looking to setup 3-disk 
>> RAID 5 array.
> 
> 3ware 9500 series. We've had no end of drive failures, but the controller
>  itself has been fine, and has resynced to the replacement drives as 
> necessary without problems. The only caveat I'd mention is monitoring. 
> The only sensible way I've found to check the status of the array is to 
> poll it via cron. Ideally I'd like it to trigger a user defined action as
>  soon as it detects failure.
> 
> Tet

Aren't these a lot more than £160? Only looking for a 3-disk RAID 5 array.
Just want to avoid driver hassles where possible. PCI will be fine as I
realise PCI-E will be a lot more than £160 and probably isn't supported anyway.

Garry
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