I like ICP Vortex SCSI RAID controllers. They have very nice open 
drivers and management software for linux including a curses interface.
3Ware for IDE.

Never much cared for Adaptec



Samuel MacDonald wrote:

> I haven't used teh Adaptec software but I've used the Compaq software. 
> I would advise installing
> RAID management software for every installation. If the source is 
> available you could compile the
> software on RH9, and do some testing.
> I think I'd find out what the beeping is before I'd install anything 
> on a production server. Make the
> trip to Wayzetta and have lunch at the Blue Point. Nothing like a 
> bucket of beer and oysters! Mm
> mmmmm I like em fresh with sea salt.
>
>
> Sam.
>
> Chris Schumann wrote:
>
>> With all this talk of RAID, it reminded me that I'm having a RAID 
>> issue. My company uses an Adaptec 2100S SCSI RAID controller and 
>> we're running Red Hat 9.0 (for two more months).
>>
>> Our host says our server is beeping now and then, but I have no 
>> management
>> software installed. He happens to be out of the country right now, 
>> and the
>> server is in Wayzata, so getting there to get into the BIOS is ...  
>> inconvenient.
>>
>> Have any of you used Adaptec's Linux RAID management software? Their web
>> site has RH9 drivers, but says Storage Manager is for RH 6.2 and 7.0 and
>> Storage Manager Pro is for RH 6.1 and 6.2.
>>
>> Dare I try one of those on RH9?
>>
>> (I suppose the worst that happens is our server shuts down and I have 
>> to get the backup guy to let me into the building to fix things. Joy.)
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
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