[SGVLUG] SATA card for Fedora

[Matt Campbell]

Thanks Munjal and Michael,

 

I'll give it a try.  I am not certain the drivers are included as the Fedora
drivers are listed for download on the manufacturer's site.  It could be
that I would need to wait for them to release a F8 driver.

 

Wish me luck!  I'll let you know how it turns out.  If all works out I
should be up to 8T, and have just over 2 free for future use.  Wherever did
it go?

 

Matt 

 

From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On Behalf
Of Munjal Thakkar
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 11:19 PM
To: SGVLUG Discussion List.
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] SATA card for Fedora

 

a lot of the higherend highpoint cards are pretty good if you ask me, but as
stated in reviews, the tech support doesn't just suck, its non-existant.
3ware is overpriced for a home media server if you ask me, i would shop
around for a highpoint and go for that, see if it works out for you. So far
I have an older card, an 1820 with 8 sata ports running a raid 5 with all
channels with 500 gig drives, so far its been running fine (for the most
part) for over a year. So it all depends. 

Or, if your media server is strictly to just place media, why not take a
look at www.freenas.org. ? Its BSD based actually, but works really well and
the software raid built in has a lot of support behind it and proven
stability (and read/write speeds of 400MB/sec even, on the right hardware).
This might be off tracking, but could lead to a possibly cheaper solution? 

On Jan 19, 2008 11:59 AM, Michael Proctor-Smith <mproctor13 at gmail.com>
wrote:

I have had good luck with 3ware cards, there drivers are in the kernel
and they are real raid not hardware assisted software raid. But you
get what you pay for they are much more expensive. On the other hand
if the highpoint card is support in core 1-7 then the drivers are in 
the kernel. But again for $118 you are most certainly getting software
raid with a bios utility to set it up.


On Jan 19, 2008 10:29 AM, Matt Campbell < <mailto:dvdmatt at gmail.com>
dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Good morning all,
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> I unfortunately ran out of space on my media server last week and need to
> add 4 more 1T drives, but am out of SATA ports. 
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> I looked online and found a 4 port SATA II PCIe x1 card which would take
> advantage of the three unused x1 ports on my motherboard.
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> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16816115029
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16816115029&SortF
ield=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=100&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnlyM
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> The reviews of the card state that the manufacturer (in Milipitas) is
> *horrible* for technical support with people getting a response only after
> multiple calls and emails.
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> The manufacturer's site lists drivers for Fedora Code 1-6 and Fedora core
7.
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> Does anyone have experience with these cards (Highpoint) or can you
> recommend a good 4 port SATA2 PCI or PCIe1 card? 
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> I have tried contacting the manufacturer to see if they support F8 yet,
but
> am not holding my breath.
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> Thanks in advance for any experience you have had with SATA cards under 
> Linux,
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> Matt
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