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Re: RocketRAID 1740 and Fedora 10

Source: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing−Lists/Fedora/2009−06/msg02585.html



      • From: Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      • Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:26:13 −0400

On Sat, 2009−06−20 at 15:56 −0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

         If you aren't dual booting a Windows OS you should consider just using
         the card as a nonraid controller and use software raid. It doesn't look
         like that card comes with battery backed cache, so it probably won't help
         noticably with performance. By using software raid, you aren't tied to
         the hardware and if the controller dies you don't need to buy the same
         card to get your data back.


All very true. But, the Fedora 7 PC I pulled this hardware from didn't
have any onboard SATA, so I had originally decided to purchase the RAID
card to give me SATA II ports AND do the RAID in hardware (the PC is 5
years old). Now that I've moved it all into my new PC, I have access to
on board SATA. So, the plan is to:

1. move the data from the old RocktRAID 1740 RAID 5 to my Linux RAID 1
2. disconnect all 3 drives from the RAID card
3. connect the same 3 drives to the on board SATA I/II ports
4. remove the RAID card
5. configure Linux RAID 5 on those drives

That'll make me sleep better at night. :) But, I'm in no rush to do it,
especially since I make daily backups. It took long enough to move all
the hardware around today. Maybe I'll make the change in a few months.

FYI: I'm doing all of this just so I can run FreeNAS in a KVM VM on my
PC. I don't think freebsd can read from or write to Linux LVM, so I'll
have to use NFS on top in order use the storage in FreeNAS.

Regards,

Ranbir

−−
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Linux 2.6.27.24−170.2.68.fc10.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
17:14:38 up 1:41, 4 users, load average: 0.41, 0.22, 0.21



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