[clug] Raid Enclosures
Stephen Hodgman
steve at namsys.com.au
Wed May 28 01:27:31 EST 2003
I have installed a 3Ware enclosure for our office server. I am not at home
so connot give you the model. It supports 4 IDE drives (Parallel) and it
takes up 3 x 5.25" bays.. We are using it with their 4 channel (7000
series) card. Drivers are in 2.4 kernel. However I downloaded and
installed the latest from their website.
They claim support for Redhat and SUSE only but I am using Debian.
The package comes with a browser based monitoring tool. This needed
latest drivers to work properly. It will email on errors and can conduct
scheduled diagnostics.
>From memory the enclosure was around $6-700. We are quite happy
with the result so far.
On 26 May 2003 at 16:03, Chris Delfs wrote:
> Does anyone on the list have any experience with SCSI-IDE raid
> enclosures.
> Basically I am looking for an external box that I can put say 4 IDE
> drives in and then connect it to a SCSI chain. Linux should than see
> the all the IDE drives as if they are a single disk.
>
> Some of the things I have seen so far are well over $3000, which seems
> a little expensive. Perhaps I'm wrong and this is this the sort of
> money I need to spend, or are there cheaper alternatives around
>
> I have a feeling something like this has been mentioned on this list
> once before.
>
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> Chris Delfs email delfs at rsc.anu.edu.au
> Research School of Chemistry Tel +(61)(2) 6125 3496
> Australian National University Fax +(61)(2) 6125 0750
>
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Stephen Hodgman steve at namsys.com.au
Namadgi Systems Ph. +61 2 6285 3460
Canberra Fax +61 2 6285 3459
Australia
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