[TriLUG] RE: IDE RAID

[Benjamin Reed]

Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov wrote:

> I have the 3Ware Escalade IDE RAID card set up on a dual Athlon MP ASUS
> motherboard with 5 x 160 GB ATA133 drives in RAID 5 configuration with Red
> Hat 9.  Works great.  Auto-detected the card  during boot.  If you need
> further details, email me.

+1

If you haven't bought hardware yet, don't bother with anything else. 
3Ware is very fast, stable, and has *great* Linux support (including 
admin and status tools).  I'll recommend them every time.

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