<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Likewise<font size="3">, I don't have any experience with that card, but I have several servers running basic mirrors using </font><font size="4"><font size="3">LSI</font><font size="4"><font size="3"> based HBA cards</font><font size="4"><font size="3">. These </font><font size="4"><font size="3">have no onboard cache and limited features compared to the more expensive RAID cards, but support RAID 0,1</font><font size="4"><font size="3"> and</font><font size="4"><font size="3"> </font><font size="4"><font size="3">1EE<font size="3">.</font></font><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="3"> Here's a nice listing of the vendor rebranding of these cards<font size="3">: </font>http://forums.servethehome.com/raid-controllers-host-bus-adapters/19-lsi-raid-controller-hba-equivalency-mapping.html<br><br>I've bought several RAID and HBA cards used in the past, and had very few failures <font size="3">with <font size="3">them overall</font></font>. I </font><font size="4"><font size="3">found a couple of the SAS HBA's </font><font size="4"><font size="3">on </font><font size="4"><font size="3">e</font><font size="4"><font size="3">ba</font><font size="4"><font size="3">y for as </font><font size="4"><font size="3">low as </font><font size="4"><font size="3">$35, thou</font><font size="4"><font size="3">gh for the same</font><font size="4"><font size="3"> price:</font><br><font size="2"><br></font></font><font size="2">http://www.ebay.com/itm/LSI-Logic-MegaRAID-SAS-8308ELP-8-Port-RAID-Controller-with-07-00015-01-cable-/230978416840?pt=US_Server_Disk_Controllers_RAID_Cards&hash=item35c762f0c8</font><br></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font size="2"><br>http://www.ebay.com/itm/Adaptec-RAID-ASR-3405-128mg-CONTROLLER-SAS-SATA-/230982452345?pt=US_Server_Disk_Controllers_RAID_Cards&hash=item35c7a08479</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><br><br> <br><br>Regards,<br>Scott<br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Matt Behrens" <matt@zigg.com><br><b>To: </b>"Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area." <grlug@grlug.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, May 20, 2013 8:26:27 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [GRLUG] OT, .. Rebuildable RAID1<br><br>On May 19, 2013, at 11:04 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl@omnitec.net> wrote:<br><br>> Following up, ... has anyone experience with this style of SATA RAID card?<br>> The specs state Linux compatible, so would that not mean they provide<br>> "real" RAID support and could be a HW option to the Intel MSM?<br><br><br>I've got nothing specific on this card, but Linux support is achievable with a driver, so that's not necessarily a sign it's a real hardware controller.<br><br>I have a server with Intel ESRT2 upstairs. There seems to be enough support to boot Linux and you can build your RAID set from a BIOS screen, but you need a driver disk at install time to have it actually function once the kernel is up and running. Without the driver, you have no running system.<br><br>Hurts a little that said driver is only available from Intel in poorly-documented binary form, rather than included in the kernel directly.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>grlug mailing list<br>grlug@grlug.org<br>http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug</div></body></html>