[ubuntu-uk] RAID failure after a couple of weeks

[Chris Rowson]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Chris Rowson
<christopherrowson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Chris Rowson wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>> The hardware controller you mention. Does that support Ubuntu? I
>>> wouldn't mind buying a hardware RAID card as long as it came with some
>>> kind of monitoring application (so I could tell remotely if the RAID
>>> fell over) and it managed to come in at the sub 100 quid price...
>>
>> Hello, Chris.
>>
>> I'm using the 3ware 8006-2LP:
>>
>
> Thanks for that :-)
>
> I'm having a scout around the t'interweb for a PCI-E 3ware card (no
> PCI slot unfortunately) to see what they come in at.

Just in case anyone ends up finding this discussion with a similar
question. I found a PCI-E 3ware card here:
http://www.span.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=8852&source=gbaseuk&currency=GBP
It's called the 9650SE-2LP, and is just over a hundred quid (plus
VAT).

According to this KB article
http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14546 The 9650SE should be
supported out of the box with Hardy as Hardy is running a 2.6.24
kernel and 3ware drivers supporting that model are included in kernels
2.6.23 and later.

If i decide to go down the hardware RAID route then I think that'd
probably the card to use.

Chris