RAID controllers (was: Re: [rescue] Re: RAID level 6 - any experiences?)

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 20:03, Robert Novak wrote:
> And on an aside, does anyone know of any available HVD RAID controller
> cards suitable for handling a pile of RSM217 arrays? I've got LVD/SE RAID
> controllers in PCI, standard HVD cards in PCI and SBus, and a source for a
> quad channel HVD card, but I'd really like something resembling "hardware"
> RAID for this stack of 28 disks.

What are you plugging it into?  A PCI SPARC?  I'm a big fan of Linux's
software RAID implementation, and I know it will handle 28 disks without
any trouble (though you'll probably want the devfs patches).  Somebody
had it running with 128 devices just the other day.  
	Greg

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