[1445] in linux-scsi channel archive
Q: RAID controller, SCSI card, SMP motherboard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Bryant)
Wed Feb 19 23:34:31 1997
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:47:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Bryant <nathan@burgessinc.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu
Hi all,
Please excuse my crossposting, this letter contains questions that I
figured were appropriate for all of these mailing lists...
I'm going to be building a web server that has to be HIGHLY reliable, as
it will all Internet-related stuff for a company.
I'm planning on a dual-PPro-200 system. It will have two 2-GB scsi drives,
which will be mirrored.
Would an Intel dual-PPro motherboard be a bad choice for this system? I've
heard stories that Intel mb's might be flakey, and an ASUS board might be
a better idea.
I understand that Linux doesn't have direct support for disk mirroring.
Does Linux support any RAID controller boards which could handle the
mirroring, or do I need to get a SCSI-to-SCSI RAID controller that
supports transparent mirroring? What would be a good choice in a RAID
controller? If I end up going with a SCSI-to-SCSI RAID controller, what is
a good SCSI adaptor which is RELIABLE with Linux?
Thanks in advance,
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