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  • 15-06-2011 4:09pm
    #1
    cian1500ww
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭


    Ordered an Adaptec 1420SA RAID card for my Debian Squeeze media server at home but didn't check to see if it was compatible, turns out it's not because it uses something called hostRAID which is basically some kind of fancy pants software RAID that requires special drivers. Would I be right in thinking that I could still use the card as an ordinary controller and just use OS software RAID??
    I'm not looking for speed, just need to mirror some drives that will be used for storage, the OS will reside on a disk connected to the server's onboard controller so the system won't be booting from any drives on the Adaptec controller.


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  • #2
    bnt
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    Does it have to be Debian? If you go for Red Hat or SuSE, you can download a driver from Adaptec. There's also a link to the Storage Manager software you need for configuring it. Or: you could compile the driver from source, since they have the code up there. :cool:

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  • #3
    cian1500ww
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    bnt wrote: »
    Does it have to be Debian? If you go for Red Hat or SuSE, you can download a driver from Adaptec. There's also a link to the Storage Manager software you need for configuring it. Or: you could compile the driver from source, since they have the code up there. :cool:
    Card's going into a machine that's already setup and configured. I thought about compiling the driver but that means building a new kernel and it's taken me a good while to get the system configured to a point where I'm happy with it, sort of :P
    I think it should work anyway, it won't have the same performance as hardware raid but it'll get the job done.


  • #4
    Khannie
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    Should be very little effort to sort the compile from source once you have the current running kernel config. It's a one time job. Go on...you know you want to. ;)


  • #5
    cian1500ww
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭cian1500ww


    I think I'll just stick with software RAID, even if I did get the driver's compiled for Debian, I probably wouldn't be able to get the software manager to run on Debian. I don't think there will be a huge difference between software raid and hostRAID.


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